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214  ALASK A AREA B Y AREA
Mount Ballyhoo
1,634 ft Ferry Dock
w Dutch Harbor/Unalaska AMAKNAK
ISLAND
For thousands of years, Dutch Harbor and its BALLY HOO R O A D
sister town Unalaska have provided shelter Dutch
from stormy seas. The Aleuts, or the Unangan, T UNDRA ROAD Harbo r
have lived here for cen turies, fishing and
hunting sea mammals from iqax (skin boats). Aleutian World War II
The first outsiders to arrive were the Russians. National Historical Park
Settling on Iliuliuk Bay, the site of Unalaska, in Unalaska
DUTCH
1759, they conscripted the Aleuts to hunt fur Bay HARBOR
seals and sea otters. After buying Alaska, the
US also used the islands as a seal hunting base AIRPOR T BEACH R OAD BI O R KA D R E POINT ROA D Summer Bay
and, during World War II, as a military outpost. 1 mile (2 km)
The king crab boom of the 1970s and the Ounalaska Native Corporation
growth of the fishing industry have made this Museum of the Aleutians S U M M E R B AY R O A D
ice-free port the largest in the US in terms of Iliuliuk Iliuliuk Bay
Harbor
the weight and value of the catch. Church of the
Holy Ascension
Bunker Hill Small Boat Harbor UNALASKA B AY V I E W R O A D
421 ft
Library
HENRY S WA N SO N DRIVE Iliuliuk
Captain’s Clinic BROAD W AY RD
Bay South CAPTAIN’S BAY RD Unalaska
Channel Lake
Sights at a Glance
1 Church of the Holy Ascension
2 Museum of the Aleutians
3 Aleutian World War II National 0 meters 500
Historical Park 0 yards 500
4 Mount Ballyhoo
Fishermen repairing crab pots at Dutch Harbor
5 Church of the Holy Its interior is filled with a rich E Museum of the Aleutians
Ascension collection of icons from 314 Salmon Way. Tel 581-5150.
Broadway Rd. Tel 581-6404. abandoned villages around Open noon–6pm Tue–Sat. & 7 =
8 groups by appt. ^ 5 6:30pm Unalaska Islands, as well as an ∑ aleutians.org
Sat & 9:30am Sun. ornate candelabra, bronze bells, Opened in 1999 on the site of
The focal point of Unalaska, the and paintings. The adjacent an old World War II ware house,
cruciform Church of the Holy 1882 Bishop’s House reflects a the museum is one of the finest
Ascension stands on a small spit style charac teristic of 1880s attractions in the area. The
at the western end of the San Francisco. modern building, with lovely
village. In 1808, it was terrazzo tiles in the entryway,
the site of Alaska’s first has an exten sive collection that
Russian Orthodox includes historic photographs,
church, a basic struc- draw ings, and relics from
ture that Bishop the Russian era, as well as
Veniaminov (see p78) objects salvaged from the World
reconstructed in a more War II defense of the islands and
opulent style in 1827. A a 1920s herring fishery.
third structure was built Also on display are Aleut
in 1858 by Aleut priest artifacts uncovered in several
Innokenti Shaishnikov. archeological digs around
The pre sent building, Unalaska, Amaknak, and other
dating from 1896, had Aleutian Islands, includ ing
suf fered so much dam- many of the 100,000 items
age from Aleutian recovered from the adjacent
storms that by 1990 it Margaret Bay village site. Once
needed repairs. The a flourishing fish camp, this
renovated church was village is thought to have
rededicated in 1996, in thrived about 2,000 years ago.
time for its centenary. Church of the Holy Ascension in Unalaska Volunteers and students are
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