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Yttygran Island. / 64.583°N 172.450°W / 64.583; -172.450. Location of Yttygran and neighboring Arakamchechen Island in Chukotka. 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 ...
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]
Sag Harbor Whaling Museum. Coordinates: 40.9977°N 72.2974°W. Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum is dedicated to the port town's past within the American whaling industry. It houses the largest collection of whaling equipment in the state of New York. [1]
BLOCK ISLAND − Scientists don't know what killed a humpback whale that washed up on Block Island. A crew from the Mystic Aquarium took blubber and skin samples from the whale Monday, but a ...
0953828. Website. www.villageofislandpark.com. Island Park is a village located in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, United States. It is a neighbor to Long Beach to the south, and Oceanside to the north. The population was 4,928 at the time of the 2020 census.
Converted to barge in 1933; sank in storm October 16, 1935, off Boston. Hulk came to be known as "Bone wreck" in diving community due to whale skeleton scattered throughout wreckage. [51] Joseph S. Zeman: March 28, 1919: Schooner: 1,956: 253.2: 43.2: 23.7: Shipwrecked February 3, 1922, on Metinic Island Ledge in Penobscot Bay. Miriam Landis ...
The Whaling Museum Society was founded in 1936, with the Museum opening in 1942. Its exhibit space is 2,500 square feet including an educational workshop. The museum holds about 6,000 documents and artifacts from Cold Spring Harbor and other Long Island whaling towns. Its collection includes a 19th-century whaleboat with original gear and a ...
788.5/km 2 (2042.2/sq mi) Randalls Island (sometimes called Randall's Island) and Wards Island are conjoined islands, collectively called Randalls and Wards Island, in New York City. [1][2][3] Part of the borough of Manhattan, it is separated from Manhattan Island by the Harlem River, from Queens by the East River and Hell Gate, and from the ...