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Middleton Island
Middleton Island is a small, uninhabited island in the U.S. state of Alaska, located in the Pacific Ocean approximately southwest of Cordova, Alaska, Cordova. The island was briefly home to Middleton Island Air Force Station, an early warning radar station, from 1958 until the station's closure in 1963. During the 1964 Alaska earthquake the island was raised an additional above sea level. The island now hosts the unattended Middleton Island Airport and a NEXRAD weather radar. __NOTOC__ Climate Middleton Island has a Oceanic climate#Subpolar variety (Cfc), subpolar oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification, Köppen: ''Cfc'') See also * List of islands of AlaskaOfficial Middleton Island Website References External links Important Bird Areas : Middleton Island, Alaska Islands of Alaska Islands of Chugach Census Area, Alaska Islands of Unorganized Borough, Alaska Uninhabited islands of Alaska {{ChugachAK-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steller Sea Lions On Middleton Island 1978
Georg Wilhelm Steller (10 March 1709 – 14 November 1746) was a German botanist, zoologist, physician and List of explorers, explorer, who worked in Russia and is considered a pioneer of Alaskan natural history.Evans, Howard Ensign. Edward Osborne Wilson (col.) ''The Man who Loved Wasps: A Howard Ensign Evans Reader''. in: Evans, Mary Alice. Big Earth Publishing, 2005. pp. 169. Nuttall, Mark. ''Encyclopedia of the Arctic''. Routledge, 2012. pp. 1953. Biography Steller was born in Windsheim, near Nuremberg in Germany, son to a Lutheranism, Lutheran Cantor (church), cantor named Johann Jakob Stöhler (after 1715, Stöller), and studied at the University of Wittenberg. He then traveled to Russia as a physician on a troop ship returning home with the wounded. He arrived in Russia in November 1734. He met the natural history, naturalist Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt (1685–1735) at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Imperial Academy of Sciences. Two years after Messerschmidt's death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
