Saint Paul Island (Alaska)

Saint Paul Island
Saint Paul Island
Waters	Bering Sea
Archipelago	Pribilof Islands
Geographical location	57 ° 11 ′  N , 170 ° 16 ′  W Coordinates: 57 ° 11 ′  N , 170 ° 16 ′  W
surface	104 km²
Residents	532 (2000) 5.1 inhabitants / km²
main place	Saint Paul
Map of Saint Paul Island

The Sankt Paul Island (English Saint Paul Island ) is the largest of the four Pribilof Islands and is located north of the Aleutian Islands in the Bering Sea . Like all the other islands in this archipelago, Saint Paul Island is of volcanic origin. Administratively, the 104 km² island belongs to the US state of Alaska .

Geography and population

Saint Paul Island
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     47   -1 -5     34   -3 -8th     31   -2 -7     34   0 -5     33   4th 0     31   8th 3     48   10 6th     70   11 7th     66   9 5     71   6th 1     71   3 -2     56   1 -4 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: wetterkontor.de

Monthly average temperatures and rainfall for Saint Paul Island Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) −0.7 −2.8 −1.7 0.4 4.1 7.7 9.8 10.6 9.3 5.6 2.8 0.7 O 3.9 Min. Temperature (° C) −5.3 −7.8 −7.0 −4.5 −0.4 2.8 5.8 6.9 4.6 0.9 −1.7 −4.0 O −0.8 Precipitation ( mm ) 47 34 31 34 33 31 48 70 66 71 71 56 Σ 592 Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 1.5 2.2 3.2 4.2 3.9 3.5 2.3 2.7 3.3 3.0 1.8 1.1 O 2.7 Rainy days ( d ) 12 9 9 9 9 8th 9 12 12 16 16 14th Σ 135 Water temperature (° C) 3 2 1 1 3 5 7th 9 8th 6th 5 3 O 4.4 Humidity ( % ) 85 85 86 86 88 90 94 94 89 83 83 83 O 87.2 Source: wetterkontor.de

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  Today's settlement on Saint Paul Island

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  Coast of the bering sea

Saint Paul Island has around 530 inhabitants, the vast majority of whom are native Alaskans from the Aleutian tribe .

history

Ludwig Choris : The Rurik in front of the island of Sankt Paul (1817)

In 1788 Gavriil Loginowitsch Pribylow discovered the island for Russia. In 1907 the church "Heilige Peters- und Paulskirche" was built by members of the Russian Orthodox Church on the island.

Infrastructure

In addition to ferry connections to the Alaskan mainland, the island also has its own airport .

Mammoths on Saint Paul

On Saint Paul Island, which was separated from Alaska by rising sea water after the last Ice Age 13,000 years ago, a population of woolly mammoth was discovered that had survived there until the mid-Holocene. They are relatively small woolly mammoths, but their small size is not considered to be a complete island dwarf like on Wrangel Island . The most recent data from the Qagnax Cave of Sankt Paul are 5,725 BP ( ¹⁴ C years), i.e. about 3700 BCE.

Trivia

Seals on the beach in Lukannon Bay

The island - more precisely the Novastoshnah peninsula (North East Point) - is the setting for the story "The White Seal" in Rudyard Kipling's " Jungle Book ". The song text "Lukannon" assigned to this story refers to the bay of Lukannon (Lukanin Bay) on the east coast, named after a fur trader named Lukanin.

Web links

Commons : Saint Paul Island  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Saint Paul Island in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System

Individual evidence

1. ↑ JM Enk, DR Yesner, KJ Crossen, DW Veltre and DH O'Rourke: Phylogeographic Analysis of the mid-Holocene Mammoth from Qagnax Cave, St. Paul Island, Alaska. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 273 (1-2), 2009, pp. 184-190.
2. ↑ Douglas W. Veltre, David R. Yesner, Kristine J. Crossen, Russell W. Graham and Joan B. Coltrain: Patterns of faunal extinction and paleoclimatic change from mid-Holocene mammoth and polar bear remains, Pribilof Islands, Alaska. Quaternary Research 2008, pp. 40-50.
3. ↑ http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/rg_lukannon1.htm