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| Title | Castle Rock, Perry Island, and Fire Island, Bering Sea, n.d. |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | n.d. |
| Notes | Fire Island is 0.2 miles across. It is located in the Bering Sea, 0.5 miles north of Bogoslof Island and 27 miles north of Umnak Island in the Aleutian Islands. The island first emerged in 1883 and was called Old Bogoslof. It was connected to Bogoslof Island by a spit from 1884 to 1890. (pg. 334) Notes from Donald Orth, Dictionary of Alaska Place Names: Geological Survey Professional Paper 567 (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1967)
Caption on image: Islands of Volcanic Origin in Bering Sea. Castle Rock, 1779; Perry Isl. 1906; Fire Isl. 1883. F.H. Nowell by permission of [illeg] Ebert [illeg] Perry, 5138. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Islands--Alaska--Cook Inlet
Rock formations--Alaska--Cook Inlet
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Perry Island (Alaska)
Fire Island (Alaska)
Castle Rock (Alaska)
Cook Inlet (Alaska)
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| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--Cook Inlet |
| Digital Collection | Frank H. Nowell Photographs
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| Order Number | NOW174 |
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Please cite the Order Number when ordering. |
| Negative Number | Nowell 5138 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Frank H. Nowell Photograph Collection. PH Coll 316
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| Object Type | Photograph |
| Physical Description | Silver gelatin, b&w : 8 x 10 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2002. |
