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    Fairway Rock

    Roca Fairway, Fairwayklippan

    65°38′N 168°45′W

    Fairway Rock (Inupiaq: Ugiiyaq) (Census block 1047, Nome, Alaska) is a small islet with mostly vertical rock faces in the Bering Strait, located southeast of the Diomede Islands and west of Alaska's Cape Prince of Wales. S. 12 mi2).

    Fairway Rock (Bering Strait, Alaska, USA; 65°37‘26‘‘N, 168°44‘23‘‘W)
    Fairway Rock (Bering Strait, Alaska, USA; 65°37‘26‘‘N, 168°44‘23‘‘W)

    Ansgar Walk / CC BY-SA 3.0

    Terrain

    65°38′N 168°45′W

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    Overview

    Fairway Rock (Inupiaq: Ugiiyaq) (Census block 1047, Nome, Alaska) is a small islet with mostly vertical rock faces in the Bering Strait, located southeast of the Diomede Islands and west of Alaska's Cape Prince of Wales. Part of Alaska, a U.S. state, the islet has an area of 0.3 km2 (0.12 mi2). Known to Inuit of the Bering Strait region in prehistory, Fairway was documented by James Cook in 1778 and named by Frederick Beechey in 1826. Although uninhabited, the island is a nesting site for seabirds — most notably the least and crested auklet — which prompt egg-collecting visits from local indigenous peoples. The United States Navy placed radioisotope thermoelectric generator-powered environmental monitoring equipment on the island from the 1960s through the 1990s.

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    Nearest islands

    Also in Diomede Islands

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    Facts

    • Geometry, areas and high points: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Copernicus GLO-30, via Talus.
    • Talus
    • Wikidata
    • Wikipedia

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