Fairway Rock

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The Fairway Rock is a 308 541 m² (0.31 km ²) large island in the Bering Strait 19 km southeast of the Diomede Islands and 32 km west of Cape Prince of Wales Alaska. James Cook was the first European documented on August 8, 1778 rock, got its present name in July 1826 by Frederick Beechey, an English naval officer and geographer.

The granite rock was how the two Diomede islands, glaciers deposited before the emergence of the Bering Strait on Beringia. It rises steeply from the water and can be seen from the coast of Alaska from. The surrounding water depth is about 50 m.

Politically, the island belongs to Alaska and is assigned there to the Nome Census Area and the unit 22E of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game 's Wildlife Conservation. It is part of the Bering Sea unit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuges.

The island is uninhabited, but is used by sea birds such as the Zwergalk or Schopfalk as a nesting area. Alaska Natives came to the cliffs to collect eggs since prehistoric times.

From 1966 to 1995, the United States Navy had stationed a powered by a radioisotope generator environment monitoring device on the island.