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Yttygran Island (Russian: Итыгран; Eskimo–Aleut: Siklyuk) is an island in the Bering Sea 24 kilometres (15 miles) northwest of Cape Chaplino, close to the coast of Chukotka . Nowadays this island is popular with ecotourists. [ 1] Beluga whales are common in the waters around Yttigran and neighbouring Arakamchechen islands.
Also known as Kenilgan, [21] Kyga, [22] and Kygynin [22] this site on the northeast coast of Arakamchechen Island, on Cape Kygynin, is linked with the Whale Bone Alley on Yttygran Island and consists of a series of whale bone columns pointing in the direction of Whale Bone Alley, two burial mounds, and a ring of boulders. [15]
The oldest gravestones were made of sandstone slabs. To put them up in a slanted position, a hole was drilled through the stone so a wooden staff or a whale bone could support the stone. [3] In later times, largers stones became popular that were called 'Bremen stones' according to their origin. [7]
Qarmaq (whale bone roof reconstructed) near Resolute, Nunavut. Qarmaq (plural: "qarmat") [1] is an Inuktitut term for a type of inter-seasonal, [2] single-room family dwelling used by Inuit. To the Central Inuit of Northern Canada, it refers to a hybrid of a tent and igloo, or tent and sod house. Depending on the season, the lower portion was ...
The second gray whale, which was captured in 1971 from the same lagoon, was named Gigi II and was released a year later after becoming too big. [157] The last gray whale, J.J., beached itself in Marina del Rey, California, where it was rushed to SeaWorld San Diego and, after 14 months, was released because it got too big to take care of ...
The Aleutian Tradition is an archaeological culture which began around 2500 BC and ended in AD 1800. Aleutian artifacts are made out of chipped stone, unlike the ground slate tools used by archaeological cultures on the mainland of Alaska. The Aleutian people lived in semi-subterranean winter houses made from driftwood, whale bone, and peat.
Although the original aspidochelone was a turtle-island of warmer waters, this was reinvented as a type of whale named aspedo in the Icelandic Physiologus (fragment B, No. 8). [29] [30] [h] In the Icelandic aspedo was described as a whale (hvalr) being mistaken for an island, [33] [34] and as opening its mouth to issue a perfume of sorts to ...
The Altar Stone, the largest of the bluestones used to build Stonehenge, lies at the heart of the ancient monument in southern England. The 13,227-pound (6-metric ton) block was likely transported ...