 For
those wishing to visit the Pribilofs, a unique experience awaits you on
St. George Island. Few places in the world can match the haunting beauty
and unusual, abundant wildlife of tiny St. George.
Located in the quiet seclusion of the Bering Sea, St. George
remains in a natural, undisturbed state. Due to its past inaccessibility,
few people have ever been to St. George Island; however, the island is
now surprisingly easy to visit. You can travel by scheduled prop-jet and
commuter airline from Anchorage, a trip of some 800 miles over the Aleutian
Islands and the Bering Sea.
Upon arrival at St. George, you will find a volcanic island
bordered by precipitous cliffs, the highest of which rises well over a
thousand feet from the rocky shoreline below; the village of St. George,
just lightly touched by the twentieth century; a native people, the Aleut/Russian
history; lush fields of treeless tundra covered in summer with a multitude
of wildflowers; and an exotic array of wildlife--tens of thousands of
northern fur seals clamoring on the beaches.

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