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Pribilofs--St. Paul Island

Had a chance to visit St. Paul Island, one of the Pribilofs in the Bering Sea, and a long-time dream bucket-list item for me. Certainly a remote location, but not a primitive one in a general sense. Had a nice cafeteria-style facility that provided excellent meals, one hotel quite comfortable. Also a site for a weather station, and dock for the Deadliest Catch fleet in season. Home to the Aleut (Unangan) initially brought there by the Russians to service the then significant fur trade (in seals), seriously displaced during World War II, but allowed to return and maintain their identity and culture on the island.
St. Paul maintains a remote biological identity in its island biogeography. No mosquitoes, simuliids or biting flies. No rodents or small mammals except for an endemic shrew. Few songbirds (hard place to find), and no open-ground rodent-dependent raptors. Making its cliff walls a safe place to nesting seabirds, beaches a safe place for seals. Significant colonies of an array of Bering Sea specialties and others, including auklets, puffins, murres, fulmars and kittiwakes.
Hope you enjoy.
St. Paul Island
St. Paul Island
St. Paul Island
St. Paul Island
St. Paul Island
St. Paul Island
1942 Aleut evacuation memorial marker
1942 Aleut evacuation memorial marker
King Eider--female
King Eider--female
Arctic Fox (Vulpes lagopus pribilofensis)
Arctic Fox (Vulpes lagopus pribilofensis)
Arctic Fox (Vulpes lagopus pribilofensis) pup
Arctic Fox (Vulpes lagopus pribilofensis) pup
Arctic Fox (Vulpes lagopus pribilofensis)
Arctic Fox (Vulpes lagopus pribilofensis)
Horned Puffin
Horned Puffin
St. Paul Island, Reef Point
St. Paul Island, Reef Point
St. Paul Island, Reef Point
St. Paul Island, Reef Point
Tufted Puffin
Tufted Puffin
Crested Auklet
Crested Auklet
Crested Auklet
Crested Auklet
Crested Auklet
Crested Auklet
Black-legged Kittiwake
Black-legged Kittiwake
Red-legged Kittiwake
Red-legged Kittiwake
Red-legged Kittiwake
Red-legged Kittiwake
Parakeet Auklets
Parakeet Auklets
Parakeet Auklet
Parakeet Auklet
Parakeet Auklet
Parakeet Auklet
Parakeet Auklets
Parakeet Auklets
Parakeet Auklet
Parakeet Auklet
Parakeet Auklet
Parakeet Auklet
Least Auklet
Least Auklet
Least Auklet
Least Auklet
Thick-billed Murre
Thick-billed Murre
Common and Thick-billed murres
Common and Thick-billed murres
Alaska Maritime NWR, St. Paul Island
Alaska Maritime NWR, St. Paul Island
St Paul Island high bluffs
St Paul Island high bluffs
Lupine field
Lupine field
Lupine field
Lupine field
Short-tailed Shearwater
Short-tailed Shearwater
Short-tailed Shearwater
Short-tailed Shearwater
Northern Fulmar
Northern Fulmar
Northern Fulmar
Northern Fulmar
St Paul Island seal beach
St Paul Island seal beach
St. Paul Island, seal beach
St. Paul Island, seal beach
Northern Fur Seal (Callorhinus ursinus) male
Northern Fur Seal (Callorhinus ursinus) male
Northern Fur Seal (Callorhinus ursinus)
Northern Fur Seal (Callorhinus ursinus)
Northern Fur Seal (Callorhinus ursinus)
Northern Fur Seal (Callorhinus ursinus)
Rock Sandpiper male
Rock Sandpiper male
Rock Sandpiper female
Rock Sandpiper female
St. Paul Island wetlands
St. Paul Island wetlands
Rock Sandpiper
Rock Sandpiper
Rock Sandpiper
Rock Sandpiper
Rock Sandpiper
Rock Sandpiper
Black-legged Kittiwake
Black-legged Kittiwake
Lapland Longspur
Lapland Longspur
Lapland Longspur
Lapland Longspur
Snow Bunting
Snow Bunting
Pacific Wren
Pacific Wren
King Eider Hotel sign.
King Eider Hotel sign.
King Eider Hotel
King Eider Hotel
wildflower cluster
wildflower cluster
lupine
lupine
Lupines
Lupines
wildflower
wildflower
Alaskan poppy
Alaskan poppy
special flower
special flower
Depression of historic Aleut sod dwellings
Depression of historic Aleut sod dwellings
Aleut dwelling support
Aleut dwelling support
Common Rosefinch
Common Rosefinch