Kepulauan Pribilof

Kepulauan Pribilof (dulunya Northern Fur Seal Islands; Aleut: Amiq,[1] Rusia: Острова Прибылова, romanized: Ostrova Pribylova) adalah sekelompok empat pulau vulkanik di lepas pantai daratan utama Alaska, di Laut Bering, yang berjarak sekitar 200 mil (320 km) dari utara Unalaska dan 200 mil (320 km) dari barat daya Cape Newenham. Kepulauan tersebut adalah bagian dari Suaka Margasatwa Maritim Alaska. Pesisir Siberia-nya berjarak sekitar 500 mil (800 km) dari barat laut. Memiliki luas sekitar 77 mil persegi (200 km2), kepulauan tersebut sebagian besar berbatu dan tertutup dengan tundra, dengan populasi 572 menurut sensus 2010.
Referensi
- ^ Geoghegan, Richard Henry (1944). The Aleut language. [Washington, DC]: United States Department of the Interior. hlm. 102.
Pranala luar
- The AMIQ Institute – a research project documenting the Pribilof Islands and their inhabitants
- FURSEAL.HTML – summary of the Fur Seal Act at U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service web site. Retrieved on April 16, 2008.
- 16 U.S.C. CHAPTER 24—CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF NORTH PACIFIC FUR SEALS – text of the U.S. Code on the U.S. Government Printing Office web site. Retrieved on April 16, 2008.
- Alaska Fisheries Science Center Historical Corner: The Pribilof Islands Retrieved on July 23, 2014.
- Pribilof Islands Seal Trade Collection at Dartmouth College Library
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