The Celebrity Millennium and another smaller cruise ship doubled Unalaska’s population for a day when about 3,800 people disembarked from the vessels.
Aleutians
Judge: National Environmental Policy Act probably doomed King Cove road
“Perhaps Congress will now think better of its decision to encumber the King Cove road project with a NEPA requirement,” Judge H. Russell Holland wrote.
Crews train to prevent repeat of Selendang Ayu grounding
The system was developed after the freighter Selendang Ayu lost power and grounded off of Unalaska Island in Dec. 2004. Six crewmembers were killed when the ship broke in half and spilled oil and its soybean cargo along the shoreline.
Nuclear submarine pops up In Dutch Harbor
A US Navy submarine pulled into Unalaska Bay near the town landfill Friday morning. The sub made no contact with the Port of Dutch Harbor, according to Harbor Master John Days.
Fur seal numbers boom on Aleutians’ remote Bogoslof Island
Northern fur seals have been declining for decades in their stronghold on St. Paul Island in Alaska’s Pribilof Islands, but their numbers are taking off a couple hundred miles to the south.
Dead herring, poison mussels found on Unalaska shorelines
Scientists have been receiving reports of dead and dying whales, birds and the small fish known as sand lance in the Aleutian Islands.