King Island (Alaska)

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King Iceland ( Inupiaq: Ugiuvak ) is an island in the Bering Sea west of the Seward Peninsula of Alaska. The island is located about 64 kilometers west of Cape Douglas. It consists primarily of a good 200 m high and 1.6 km long rock.

She was discovered in 1778 by James Cook, who. According to his lieutenant aboard, Lt. James King, named.

Originally, King Iceland the winter home of about 200 Inupiat, who called themselves Aseuluk. The Aseuluk whose name for King Ukiwuk is Iceland, spent their winters on the island with hunting. In the summer, she moved to the mainland in the area now Nome, Alaska. There they sold their hunted prey in winter (especially the skins ).

By the early 1950s, more and more subjected to the Aseuluk all year to Nome (1960 only lived about 50 Aseuluk in winter on the island), before in 1970 the entire island remained uninhabited. The 45 houses, the Catholic Church and the school building of the only village expired since then.

The fauna of the island include Schopfalke, a medium- sized species of the family of the Auks.