Across the ice curtain: Alaska–Siberia visits, 1988

Abstract On 13 June 1988 a US party including Alaskan Natives and business, political and media representatives flew from Nome, Alaska to Provideniya, Siberia, on a ‘friendship flight’ arranged by the State of Alaska and Soviet authorities. In August of the same year MV Society Explorer , a US-opera...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Polar Record
Main Author: Sheldon, Jerome F.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1989
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
Bering Strait
Provideniya
Nome
Polar Record
Yupik
Alaska
Siberia
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400010822
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400010822
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Summary:Abstract On 13 June 1988 a US party including Alaskan Natives and business, political and media representatives flew from Nome, Alaska to Provideniya, Siberia, on a ‘friendship flight’ arranged by the State of Alaska and Soviet authorities. In August of the same year MV Society Explorer , a US-operated cruise ship, made a 20-hour port call in Provideniya. On 7 September the Soviet research vessel Dmitri Laptev paid a return visit from Provideniyato Nome with a party of Yupik natives and Soviet officials. These visits represent the first formal contacts between neighbouring communities across Bering Strait for over 40 years.

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