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Across the ice curtain: Alaska–Siberia visits, 1988

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Jerome F. Sheldon
Jerome F. Sheldon
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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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Polar Record , Volume 25 , Issue 154 , July 1989 , pp. 219 - 222
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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