About 1,110 results
Open links in new tab
  1. Ghost towns scattered across Alaska map | Geophysical Institute

    Oct 13, 2016 · There are at least 100 abandoned settlements in Alaska. That's the number Beth Mikow figured as she wrote her master's thesis for UAF in 2010. Mikow, who now works for …

  2. Abandoned Cold War Radar Stations in Alaska

    Dec 8, 2010 · On windy, cold nights a few decades ago, men in darkened rooms north of the Arctic Circle spent their evenings watching radar screens.

  3. Ghost ship artifacts emerge in museum | Geophysical Institute

    Mar 24, 2016 · The captain and crew abandoned the ship, which carried furs from Canadian trappers and a variety of other cargo. Following the ice's capture of the Baychimo, the captain …

  4. Bus 142 to embark on final journey | Geophysical Institute

    Oct 28, 2021 · Over the years, the abandoned bus hosted hunters, trappers and wanderers who happened upon the rain-and-bear resistant shelter just north of Denali National Park and …

  5. Giant Chinese Dam May Cause Earth to Move | Geophysical Institute

    Nov 10, 1999 · As the water rises, it will drown more than 1,400 rural towns and villages abandoned earlier by government decree. The water rising behind the dam will power 26 huge …

  6. Ancient moose antlers hint of early arrival | Geophysical Institute

    Dec 1, 2022 · In her recent paper, Groves wrote of the Valley of the Willows near a now-abandoned village site on the Ikpikpuk River. U.S. Navy explorer W.L. Howard in 1886 wrote …

  7. Alaska continues to change, fast | Geophysical Institute

    Dec 5, 2024 · High sea-surface and warm river temperatures are one factor in the decline of Yukon River Chinook and chum salmon to the point where fish camps are abandoned. The …

  8. Bitter weather may have wiped out reindeer | Geophysical Institute

    Jan 7, 2010 · Biologist Dave Klein first stepped on the island in 1957, 13 years after the Coast Guard had abandoned it. Klein, 82, now a professor emeritus for the University of Alaska …

  9. When Reindeer Paradise Turned to Purgatory - Geophysical Institute

    Nov 13, 2003 · During World War II, while trying to stock a remote island in the Bering Sea with an emergency food source, the U.S.

  10. Small Town Decay Delhi ON - Lots of Pictures

    Jul 10, 2006 · Donk, is the rest of Delhi as abandoned-looking as your pictures show? For whatever reasons, I noticed that the town looks quite clean and tidy. Perhaps I've gotten too …