Cold Bay, Alaska

• Meetings announced for proposed Alaska refuge road
  

  A road through the refuge has been a priority for the community of King Cove, which wants land access to an all-weather jet port at Cold Bay.

• HAI Announces Recipient of the 2010 Eurocopter Golden Hour Award
  

  HAI is pleased to announce the 2010 Eurocopter Golden Hour Award recipient, Crew of CGNR 6573; U.S. Coast Guard, Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, Alaska.

• Coast Guard medevacs possible heart attack victim from Akutan
  

  Two Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter crews medevaced a 58-year-old Solilian man from Akutan Processing Plant Clinic reportedly suffering a heart attack Wednesday.

• Cold Bay
  

  Last week President Obama repledged his campaign promise to shutter Guantanamo Bay prison, ostensibly because the facility has become a "tremendous recruiting tool for al Qaeda." This drew muted and listless praise from the hipsters down at the Mississippi Mud coffee house, who like to tell each other: "One reason the terrorists hate us is because ...

• TelAlaska launching cellular phone service
  

  Cellular telephone service is coming to Port Lions. TelAlaska Cellular is launching the service during community events Monday at the Port Lions Community Hall.

• Video available - Coast Guard medevacs Bering Sea fisherman
  

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew forward deployed in Cold Bay medevaced a 30-year-old crewman with a reported eye injury from the 124-foot fishing vessel Clipper Surprise more than 50 miles north of Dutch Harbor Monday.

• Calm seas bring smooth start to Bering Sea crab season
  

  Calm seas and unseasonably warm weather greeted Bering Sea crab fishermen as they embarked on the 2009-10 red king crab season in search of a harvest quota of 16.9 million pounds of king crab.

• Coast Guard, state agencies keep vigilant eye on 2009 - 2010 Bering Sea crab fleet
  

  The Coast Guard, in partnership with Alaska Department of Fish and Game personnel, are deploying to safeguard the crab fleet departing today for the start of the 2009 - 2010 crabbing season in the Bearing Sea.

• Minnesota Zoo computer animation fly-through
  

  The Minnesota Zoo has lofty ambitions during a down economy. Watch a computer animated fly through of what they're proposing and read Sunday's Star Tribune for all the details.

• Inside Alaska business
  

  TelAlaska Cellular has added wireless telephone service to Cold Bay, Fort Yukon and King Cove for the first time, the company said.

• The Scary Truth About Global Warming
  

  Global warming is one of the most frightening environmental threats that the United States and other countries are greatly concerned over.

City Description

Cold Bay (Udaamagax in Aleut) is a city in Aleutians East Borough, Alaska, United States. The population was 88 at the 2000 census. Cold Bay is one of the main commercial centers of the Alaska Peninsula, and is home to Cold Bay Airport. There is evidence of prehistoric occupation by Aleuts and later Russian encampments. Cold Bay's American history began with the Japanese invasion of the Aleutians in World War II. General Simon Bolivar Buckner ordered the creation of Fort Randall, an airbase on the shores of Cold Bay, in 1942 as a part of a general expansion of American assets in the Aleutians. It (along with Otter Point) served as a base for the 11th Air Force to provide protection to the only deep water port in the Aleutians at the time, Dutch Harbor. This protection was proved necessary when during Yamamoto's Midway Campaign a diversionary attack was launched against Dutch Harbor. The initial attack was repulsed by the surprise presence of P-40s stationed here. A second larger attack with its own fighter escort the next day succeeded in causing minor damage. Later, with the victory in the Pacific, the forces grew to 20,000 troops. The quonset huts used to house this massive

City Contained By:

• United States of America
• Alaska
• Aleutians East Borough

Timezones:

• Alaska Time Zone

Size:

• 183.630157023 km squared

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