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Nunivak

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[noo-nuh-vak] / ˈnu nəˌvæk /

noun

  1. an island in the Bering Sea, off the W coast of Alaska. 1,700 sq. mi. (4,400 sq. km).


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Coast Guard searched Nunivak Island and the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta coast for four days before calling off their search Oct.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 5, 2020

Trooper Spokesperson Megan Peters said the search area was expanded over the weekend after authorities received information that people in similar circumstances had previously reached Nunivak Island, further offshore to the east.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 29, 2020

This summer, the National Marine Fisheries Service is funding the next step in mapping Alaska’s coast - about 2,500 miles along the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta shoreline from Cape Newenham to Emmonak, including Nunivak Island.

From Washington Times • Jul. 20, 2014

As Interior Secretary, with power over federal acreage, Hickel immediately placed Nunivak Island, the federally owned haven for musk oxen, off-limits to all hunters.-

From Time Magazine Archive

He must indeed be their leader for he was clearly the wealthy wolf; that is, wealthy as she had known the meaning of the word on Nunivak Island.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George

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