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  1. Ghost towns scattered across Alaska map - Geophysical Institute

    Oct 13, 2016 · Every person in the village of York, west of Wales, died due to the flu. In just one week, 72 of 80 people died in Brevig Mission (which is still a village). Many orphans moved to …

  2. The Coldest Place in North America - Geophysical Institute

    Jan 23, 2003 · The temperature at Snag was unavailable; Canadians had abandoned the airstrip in 1967. × Photo: Meteorologist Jim Brader of the National Weather Service office in …

  3. Abandoned Cold War Radar Stations in Alaska

    Dec 8, 2010 · Abandoned Cold War Radar Stations in Alaska December 08, 2010 / Ned Rozell On windy, cold nights a few decades ago, men in darkened rooms north of the Arctic Circle …

  4. Ghost ship artifacts emerge in museum - Geophysical Institute

    Mar 24, 2016 · Alaska has its own ghost ship. Workers for the Hudson Bay Company abandoned the S.S. Baychimo just offshore of Wainwright 85 years ago. Sea ice trapped the 230-foot …

  5. Bitter weather may have wiped out reindeer - Geophysical Institute

    Jan 7, 2010 · Biologist Dave Klein first stepped on the island in 1957, 13 years after the Coast Guard had abandoned it. Klein, 82, now a professor emeritus for the University of Alaska …

  6. When Reindeer Paradise Turned to Purgatory - Geophysical Institute

    Nov 13, 2003 · Six-thousand reindeer lived here on St. Matthew Island in the Bering Sea in 1963. By the 1980s, zero reindeer remained.

  7. Bus 142 to embark on final journey - Geophysical Institute

    Oct 28, 2021 · Over the years, the abandoned bus hosted hunters, trappers and wanderers who happened upon the rain-and-bear resistant shelter just north of Denali National Park and …

  8. Giant Chinese Dam May Cause Earth to Move - Geophysical Institute

    Nov 10, 1999 · Hoping to harness the power of the river, the Chinese government began building the dam a few years ago, expecting to finish by 2009. When the mile-wide, 600-foot high dam …

  9. "Abandoned" buildings | Cyburbia | urban planning, placemaking, …

    May 23, 2007 · We are re-writeing the zoning code for a 260 year old 25,000 population Southern town with only a 50 year zoning history. In reviewing existing codes, we found a lengty …

  10. Rezone abandoned school land unilaterally? | Cyburbia | urban …

    Sep 21, 2016 · In my city we have an abandoned school that is still owned by the county school board. The land it sits on is zoned Residential. A concerned group of citizens would rather it …

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