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Alaska.com | Weather & climate Alaska is legendary for its winters -- but most visitors come in the summer, when the days are long and the temperatures are moderate. Northern Alaska's arctic climate is a place of enduring cold in the winter and somewhat higher temperatures in the summer. Western Alaska's climate is influenced by the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean, but the inland sections are warm in the summer and cold in the winter. www.alaska.com /about/weather/story/4481284p-4460281c.html   (1487 words)

The History of Golovin, Alaska - ExploreNorth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) Golovin is located on a point of land between Golovnin Bay and Golovnin Lagoon on the Seward Peninsula. Golovin was named for Captain Vasili Golovnin of the Russian Navy. When gold was discovered in 1898 at Council, Golovin became a supply point for the gold fields. www.explorenorth.com /library/communities/alaska/bl-Golovin.htm   (193 words)

Alaska Division of Community Advocacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) Golovin is an Inupiat Eskimo village with a fishing, herding, and subsistence lifestyle. Golovin is classified as an isolated village, it is found in EMS Region 5A in the Norton Sound Region. Golovin's economy is based on subsistence activities, reindeer herding, fish processing and commercial fishing. www.dced.state.ak.us /dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_Name=Golovin   (622 words)

Golovin, Alaska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Golovin is on a point of land between Golovnin Bay and Golovnin Lagoon on the Seward Peninsula in western Alaska. Golovin was named for Captain Vasily Golovnin of the Russian Navy, who visited Alaska to inspect the workings of the Russian-American Company in 1807-1809, in the Diana, and in 1817-1819, in the Kamchatka, while circumnavigating the world. Golovin is served by the Bering Strait School District. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Golovin,_Alaska   (570 words)

Alaska Regional Profiles, Northwest Region - The People Northwest Alaska may prove to be the "cradle" of civilization in the Western Hemisphere. He went to northwest Alaska in 1890, and in his report to the U.S. Government, he suggested that domestic reindeer be transported from Siberia to the Seward Peninsula. As Alaska moved toward statehood in 1959, Native groups began to organize to gain recognition of their aboriginal rights to the land. www.alaskool.org /resources/regional/nw_reg_pro/thepeople.html   (5137 words)

Golovin Alaska Resource Guide, City or community of Golovin, Alaska Facts, Information, Relocation, Real Estate, ... The distance from Golovin to Washington DC is 4309 miles. The distance to the Alaska state capital is 1156 miles. Golovin is positioned 64.57 degrees north of the equator and 162.99 degrees west of the prime meridian. www.usacitiesonline.com /akcountygolovin.htm   (187 words)

Low Rate Mortgage Golovin Alaska Golovin Mortgage Working 30 mortgages, Golovin Alaska with broker can help mortgages, with mortgage mortgage fixed year rates, reverse a interest mortgage, second only you. Golovin Alaska - Borrowing companies vie for the opportunity of making ones loan by proposing the best available terms. The mission is to aid potential customers including you in Golovin Alaska, confidently review the overpowering diversity of home loan options. www.equityfoundation.com /Alaska3/Low-Rate-Mortgage-Golovin-Alaska.htm   (220 words)

Margaret T. "Maggie" Olson - Evangelical Covenant Church Alaska Covenant Church is the forerunner of what is now the Evangelical Covenant Church of Alaska. The church in Alaska changed its "mission" status to its current corporate status of ECCAK and Maggie was elected to serve on its Council for six years. Covenant Women of Alaska was formed in the late 1960's and began its support of needy parsonages for washers, dryers, couches, stoves, tables and chairs through craft sales. www.covchurch.org /cov/news/item3603.html   (839 words)

Golovin Profile | Golovin AK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) Golovin, AK, population 144, is located in Alaska's Nome (CA) county, about 472.3 miles from Anchorage and 1,906 miles from Seattle. Through the 90's Golovin's population has grown by about 13%. It is estimated that in recent years Golovin's population has been declining at an annual rate of less than one percent. www.idcide.com /citydata/ak/golovin.htm   (52 words)

Golovin, Alaska (AK) population and demographics data - Sperling's BestPlaces Golovin, Alaska (AK) population and demographics data - Sperling's BestPlaces Compared to the rest of the country, Golovin's cost of living is about the same as the U.S. average. The unemployment rate in Golovin is 11.90 percent (U.S. avg. www.bestplaces.net /city/profile.aspx?city=Golovin_AK   (103 words)

Golovin Class E Airspace Golovin, AK AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT. This regulation is within the scope of that authority because it creates Class E airspace sufficient in size to contain aircraft executing instrument procedures for the Golovin Airport and represents the FAA's continuing effort to safely and efficiently use the navigable airspace. That airspace extending upward from 700 feet above the surface within a 7.4-mile radius of the Golovin Airport, and that airspace extending upward from 1,200 feet above the surface within a 30-mile radius of Lat. www.alaska.faa.gov /at/Finalrules/Golovin.htm   (1065 words)

Glimpses of Our Past - The Eskimo Bulletin, 1898 The news story's reference to prospectors using reindeer between Golovin and Port Clarence undoubtedly alluded to a party including Rev. Nels Hultberg which left Golovin for the west in late December 1897. It was part of a plan by Sheldon Jackson, head of the U.S. Bureau of Education, that brought reindeer to Alaska and promoted reindeer herding by Alaska's Natives. While accomplishing this, he also struggled to limit reindeer ownership as much as possible to Natives, a task greatly complicated by substantial holdings by Lapp herders, some of whom later sold to the Lomen Brothers to create the dominant reindeer company of the 1920s and early 1930s. www.alaska.net /~ahs/eskimo.htm   (1264 words)

The Nome Nugget - Alaska Oldest Newspaper - Front Page- Nov 30, 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) "Alaska Gold as the permittee, has a significant and material interest in the permit that is the subject of this action," say court papers. Before 2002, the majority of people in the Wade Hampton Census Area, located along the coast and Yukon River, were already traveling to Bethel in the Fourth Judicial District for hearings or jury duty, even through this was not their official judicial district. According to Kapsner, Alaska judicial boundaries were not altered over time to reflect changing communication and commerce systems. www.nomenugget.net /20061130/index.php   (999 words)

Reindeer Herder Fights an Uphill Battle with Caribou, Alaska Science Forum Gray, an Alaska Native, lives in White Mountain, Alaska, a village on the Fish River 77 miles northwest of Nome. He keeps his herd isolated from caribou on a strip of land that juts into Golovin Bay, but he doesn't have much of a buffer between his animals and the caribou. The market for reindeer meat was good, and Koreans and other Asians were paying from $30 to $50 per pound for powdered reindeer antler in velvet, which they used for medicinal purposes, such as a cure for sexual impotence. www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF15/1537.html   (762 words)

KICY Alaska Dedicates New Transmitter, Station - Evangelical Covenant Church In late 1956, Bill Hartman traveled to Alaska to help Ronald Amundsen, then director for Covenant outreach there, put in a series of radio phones for pastors in the Alaskan bush. Hartman's daughter, Gail Withuhn, came with her father to the dedication (see accompanying photo), saying that she was coming in the place of her mother, who died in 1998 from cancer. This is the first time that Withuhn has traveled to Alaska with her father. www.covchurch.org /cov/news/item1568.html   (652 words)

American Society of Polar Philatelists: B.U.T.'s Since only one first class postmarker from this office had "Golovin, Alaska" in a shorter than normal typeface, and that also was the only one with nothing along the lower part of its rim, it would appear that this definitely identifies it as a "Helbock" type 5. Byrd says that surface-mailing packages from Alaska in July still would allow enough time for their receipt (presumably for a fall, 1932, departure). Lomen Collection, numerous letters from 23 January 1926 to 24 May 1935 contain orders and requests for advice needed by the North Pole flight expedition, "Byrd I" and "Byrd II." Though documents extend beyond this period, there appears to be no further mention of Lomens as polar expedition outfitters. www.south-pole.com /aspp03.htm   (1591 words)

Notes on Beringia ’98 Presentations The Alaska Nanuuq Commission was founded in 1994 to ensure polar bear conservation and subsistence opportunity for Native residents of coastal villages. This is a three-year field project to inventory and study fungi in the Beringia region of Alaska and Russia. Forty are in Alaska with two eruptions a year and 29 are located in Kamchatka with 2-3 eruptions per year. www.nps.gov /akso/beringia/berinotesjan99(2).htm   (8420 words)

Alaska Alaska, abbreviated "AK", is in the Pacific region of the U.S. Its capital is Juneau. There were 626,932 people in Alaska as of the 2000 census. Moving Traffic, Inc. is not a broker or a lender, and all offers for loans or mortgages found on this site are made solely by the advertiser. www.citytowninfo.com /places/alaska   (159 words)

Golovin, Alaska AK, city profile (Nome census area) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Golovin was $13,281, compared with $21,587 nationally. Median rent in Golovin, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $408. The average commute time for Golovin workers is 4 minutes, compared with 26 minutes nationwide. www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=27948   (651 words)

Notes on Beringia 99 Presentations Since 1997, Native peoples of Alaska and Chukotka, Russian and American scholars, researchers, environmentalists, and representatives of government and non-governmental organizations have gathered in October to report on their projects funded by the National Park Service’s Shared Beringian Heritage Program. Golovin would like NPS assistance on how to develop a school curriculum for the heritage field school. Alaska Natives formed the Alaska Nanook Comission in 1994, with the goal of establishing a native-to-native agreement with the native people of Chukotka. www.nps.gov /akso/beringia/berinotesaug00.htm   (13102 words)

Alaska Docs Monthly Shipping List for July 2005 Alaska ITS/CVO business plan : using advanced technology to enhance public safety and improve government and industry efficiency / [Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities]. Alaska's CVISN level one top-level design description / prepared by Alaska Department of Transportation [and Public Facilities], MSCVE, in conjunction with the Alaska Department of Administration. Alaska adjusters examination / [State of Alaska, Division of Insurance?]. www.library.state.ak.us /asp/shippinglists/fy_2006/2005_07.html   (1050 words)

ARCUS | Arctic Research Consortium of the United States Skeletal samples from Golovin Bay, Alaska, located on the south side of the Seward Peninsula (64° 30" north and 163° west), and Nunivak Island, off the southwest coast of Alaska (60º north and 166° west), were examined. It has been reported that the subsistence bases for these two populations were distinctly different with a greater reliance on caribou at Golovin Bay and intensive usage of sea resources on Nunivak Island. Biomechanical studies suggest that the stresses on the vertebral column associated with following caribou herds over long distances are greater than those involved with usage of a kayak or umiaq. siempre.arcus.org /4DACTION/wi_sa_displayLong/164   (202 words)

Tesoro Iron Dog The Nome to Golovin Snowmobile Race is 190 miles of cross-country action where racers battle open tundra, white out conditions, and sub-zero temperatures at speeds averaging over 90 miles per hour. Since its humble beginnings in the 1960’s, the race has grown into one of the most prestigious in the state as racers make their way to Nome in increasing numbers each March, thanks to a steadily growing purse and the challenge of running one of the harshest courses in the country. It is a mix of the state’s seasoned professionals and Alaskan Natives who depend on these same race sleds for daily transportation. irondog.org /store/golovin.htm   (178 words)

RS 2477 Case Summary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) Golovin Lagoon and Paralleling the Fish River Northwest To Council. Route 18, at Golovin, Mile 170 1/2, Or Seventy Miles East of Nome On The East Shore of Golovin Bay. Trail To Be Staked During the Winter of 1959-1960. www.dnr.state.ak.us /mlw/trails/rs2477/rst_legal.cfm?FILE_NUMBER=84   (669 words)

Amuktoolik I am originally from Golovin, Alaska, near Nome. From there on, I was motivated to learn different types of dances. My family lives in Golovin and I am the oldest of 20 grandchildren. www.uaf.edu /rahi/2001/staff/amuktoolik/amuktoolik.html   (77 words)

Homer News OnlineMore options available for flights across Bay 04/15/04 Bobbi Sweatt, from Seldovia, runs the Seldovia office and Jana Larson of Homer has five years experience in the field and is an agent at the main terminal. Donny was born in Nome and raised in Golovin, Alaska. He also is a doctor and has logged over 15,000 hours transporting passengers, freight, mail, medevacs and providing charter services to remote fishing and hunting camps and villages. www.homernews.com /stories/041504/new_041504new012001.shtml   (640 words)

Alaska Web Page The brokers, agents and team of professional relocation and home finding specialists at ePartner National Relocation can help you with all of your real estate needs in anywhere in Alaska including such cities as Anchorage, Juneau, Fairbanks, College, Sitka or any of the other city. If you are moving anywhere in Alaska we can help. The weather for Juneau, Alaska is reported by a local weather station using a combination of TAF and METAR reports from airports and weather stations in the area (ICAO). alaskawebpage.com   (147 words)

Alaska local weather, satellite weather maps, forecasts, regional weather, average local weather and MORE!. ... Alaska local weather, satellite weather maps, forecasts, regional weather, average local weather and MORE!. Alaska Desktop Wallpaper Free for you from Alaska. Sitka, Alaska Travel Guide Lodging, fishing charters and tours in Sitka. www.welcometoalaska.com /Weather.htm   (196 words)

Elim, Alaska (AK) Detailed Profile - relocation, real estate, travel, jobs, hotels, hospitals, schools, crime, news Back to Alaska big cities, AK smaller cities, AK small cities, All Cities. Discuss Elim, Alaska on our local forum with tens of thousands registered users Nearest cities: Golovin, AK (53.2 miles), Shaktoolik, AK www.city-data.com /city/Elim-Alaska.html   (586 words)

Listings Alaska: Religion - Christian - Complete List Alaska Anchorage Alumni Web Site is dedicated to the alumni of this mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Journey Christian Church, Fairbanks, Alaska is a people friendly community of believers who seek to follow Jesus Christ. The church is based in Fairbanks and the North Star Borough, Alaska and... listingsalaska.com /Society/Religion/Christian/complete.asp   (1734 words)

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