St. Matthew Island is an uninhabited island in the Bering Sea in Alaska, 295 km (183 miles) WNW of Nunivak Island. The island has a land area of 137.857 sq mi (357.049 km²), making it the 43rd largest island in the United States. Its most southerly point is Cape Upright which features cliff faces which exceed 1000 feet. There is a small island to the north called Hall Island. The highest point on the island is 450 m above sea level. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... A U.S. state is any one of the 50 states which have membership of the federation known as the United States of America (USA or U.S.). The separate state governments and the U.S. federal government share sovereignty. ... For other uses, see Alaska (disambiguation). ... Satellite photo of the Bering Sea Bering Sea and the North Pacific Ocean Bearing Sea with Kamchatka Peninsula and Alaska The Bering (or Imarpik) Sea is a body of water north of, and separated from, the north Pacific Ocean by the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands. ... For other uses, see Alaska (disambiguation). ... Nunivak Island is the second largest island in the Bering Sea, 48 km (30 miles) offshore from the delta of the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers, at about 60° North latitude. ... A square mile is an English unit of area equal to that of a square with sides each 1 statute mile (≈1,609 m) in length. ... Square kilometre (U.S. spelling: square kilometer), symbol km², is a decimal multiple of SI unit of surface area square metre, one of the SI derived units. ... Satellite image of the Big Island of Hawaii, the largest island in the United States. ... “Precipice” redirects here. ... Hall Island is a small island to the northwest of St. ...

The entire island's natural scenery and wildlife is protected as it is part of the Bering Sea unit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. This article is about the physical universe. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (often shortened to Alaska Maritime or AMNWR) is a United States National Wildlife Refuge comprising 2,400 islands, headlands, rocks, islets, spires and reefs in Alaska, with a total area of 4. ...

The United States Coast Guard maintained a manned LORAN station on the island during the 1940s. USCG HH-65 Dolphin USCG HH-60J JayHawk USCG HC-130H departs Mojave USCG HC-130H on International Ice Patrol duties The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is at all times a branch of the U.S. military, a maritime law enforcement agency, and a federal regulatory body. ... LORAN (LOng RAnge Navigation) is a terrestrial navigation system using low frequency radio transmitters that use the time interval between radio signals received from three or more stations to determine the position of a ship or aircraft. ...

Mammals

Presently, arctic foxes and insular voles are the only mammals resident on the island, though polar bears occasionally visit (via sea ice).[1] This article is about the animal. ... Binomial name Miller, 1899 The Insular Vole or St. ...

In 1944, 29 reindeer were introduced to the island by the United States Coast Guard to provide an emergency food source. The coast guard abandoned the island a few years later, leaving the reindeer. Subsequently, the reindeer population rose to about 6,000 by 1963 and then died off in the next two years to about 40 animals. A scientific study attributed the population crash to the limited food supply in interaction with climatic factors (the winter of 1963-64 was exceptionally severe in the region)^[2]. By the 1980s, the reindeer population had completely died out^[3]. Caribou redirects here. ...

Fish

There is a small lake on the island which is inhabited by chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), Dolly Varden (Salvelinus malma) and Arctic char. Binomial name (Walbaum, 1792) The Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) (derived from Russian чавыча), is a species of anadromous fish in the salmon family. ... Trinomial name Salvelinus malma malma Walbaum, 1792 For the other subspecies, see Southern Dolly Varden and Salvelinus malma miyabei. ... Binomial name Linnaeus, 1758 Arctic char or Arctic charr () is both a freshwater and saltwater fish in the Salmonidae family, native to Arctic, sub-Arctic and alpine lakes and coastal waters. ...

References

• ^  David R. Klein, The Introduction, Increase, and Crash of Reindeer on St. Matthew Island, Alaska Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, University of Alaska
• ^  Alaska Science Forum
• St. Matthew Island: Block 1045, Census Tract 1, Bethel Census Area, Alaska United States Census Bureau