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Island History

The following pages summarize the history of the Pribilof Islands, primarily from the perspective of the U.S. government’s involvement on the islands from 1867 to 1983. Reference materials pertaining to the history of the islands are voluminous. Readers should not consider this text or its source materials an exhaustive collection. Rather, readers might consider this text an indication of the importance and the depth of the history of the Pribilof Islands. The following pages are intended to pique the interest of readers and encourage them to further explore the history of these unique islands.

Bundling sealskins, St. Paul Island, 1921.
Photo courtesy of the St. George Tanaq Corporation
(G Dallas Hanna collection, photography #36)

The Unangan

The Russian Period

The United States’ Management of the Pribilof Islands

Aleut Management and Ownership of the Pribilof Islands

Seal Islands Historic District National Historic Landmark

Literary Contributions

NOAA created this product in partial fulfillment of a memorandum of agreement between it and the Alaska State Historic Preservation Officer.
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Last update July 15, 2008