BERING SEA ARBITRATION OF 1893 Pribilof Islands St. Paul Russian Alaska Dispute
POB#52284
TITLE: Management of the Pribilof Islands
AUTHOR: [James Coolidge Carter, Attorney for the United States]
PUBLISHER: [Washington DC]: [Bering Sea Arbitration Counsel - U.S.]
DATE: [1893]
DESCRIPTION: 21p, 26cm.
CONDITION NOTES: GOOD. Some wear and tear to head edge and small corner crease to first page at tail corner.
BINDING: Saddle stitched self cover pamphlet.
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Includes verbatim testimony of 12 individuals living on the islands in question, who witnessed sealing practices in question.
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Testimony printed for the many observers and interested parties involved in the Bering Sea Arbitration at Washington in 1893. Much of the testimony concerns sealing and the collection of fur bearing animals on the small islands between Russia and Alaska.
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PRIBILOF ISLANDS are probably best known today for the role they play in the Reality TV Classic DEADLIEST CATCH, where St. Paul Island is closest Coast Guard Station and off load spot for full crab catches. The Pribilof Islands (formerly the Northern Fur Seal Islands; Russian: Острова Прибылова) are a group of four volcanic islands off the coast of mainland Alaska, in the Bering Sea, about 200 miles (320 km) north of Unalaska and 200 miles (320 km) southwest of Cape Newenham. The Siberian coast is roughly 500 miles (800 km) northwest. About 77 square miles (200 km2) in total area, they are mostly rocky and are covered with tundra, with a population of 572 as of the 2010 census.
