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15
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$35,000
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America/Nome
99638
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Nikolski, AK - History
We would like to provide the residents of Nikolski a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Nikolski Home page. The Nikolski Home page provides as much information as possible on Nikolski. Knowing Nikolski’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Nikolski’s Home page, you will also find Nikolski’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Nikolski has a population of 15. 66.7% of Nikolski’s inhabitants are Male, and 33.3 are female. 66.7% of Nikolski is married and 66.7% own their own home. Household median income in Nikolski is $35,000, and the individual median income is $21,667. Nikolski’s Ethnic is the following: Native(73.3%), Multiple(26.7%).
The Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association reports that Nikolski is thought to be one of the oldest continuously-occupied communities in the world. Archaeological evidence from Ananiuliak Island, 5 km offshore in Nikolski Bay, dates human habitation to 8,500 years ago. A site known as Chaluka in Nikolski shows 4,000 years of virtually continuous occupation.
Subsistence activities, sheep and cattle raising, and fishing are the main livelihoods and the latter has been traced back thousands of years by archaeologists, through analysis of midden sites and fish hook designs in the 1960s. Previous activities from the 1800s included sea otter hunting and fox farming.
A sheep ranch was established in 1926 as part of the Aleutian Livestock Company and there are thousands on the island today. In the early 1900s the residents purchased a large fishing boat with money made from those activities, the “Umnak Native”, but it was wrecked in 1933. In June 1942 during World War II, the Japanese attacked Unalaska to the East and had also seized Attu and Kiska islands, to the west.
Residents of Umnak Island were evacuated to the Ketchikan area in far southeastern Alaska, although an American airstrip and military base on the north of the island, Fort Glenn Army Air Base (abandoned by 1950) repelled Japanese forces. The Battle of Attu and associated campaigns in 1943 recaptured the lost islands to the west.
Nikolski locals returned in 1944, but some had experienced the outside world for the first time and since then, many natives have remained offshore, working in canneries or on fishing vessels. The US Air Force built a White Alice radar communication site on the edge of town in the 1950s, but it was abandoned by 1977.
A 3,500 foot gravel runway, the unattended Nikolski Air Station remains, and there are passenger, mail and cargo services depending on the harsh weather conditions. Nikolski has no harbour.
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