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    Saint Paul Island

    Sankt-Paul-Insel, Île Saint-Paul

    57°11′N 170°16′W

    St. Paul (Aleut: Tanax̂ Amix̂ or Sanpuulax̂, Russian: Сент-Пол, romanized: Sent-Pol) is a city in the Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska, United States. It is the main settlement of Saint Paul Island in the Pribilof Islands, an archipelago in the Bering Sea.

    Pribilof Fur Seal Monument on Saint Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska, USA. The monument is located on the Southern outskirts of town at 57°07'05.5"N 170°16'45.8"W.
    Pribilof Fur Seal Monument on Saint Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska, USA. The monument is located on the Southern outskirts of town at 57°07'05.5"N 170°16'45.8"W.

    Carina Gsottbauer / CC BY-SA 4.0

    Terrain

    57°11′N 170°16′W

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    Overview

    St. Paul (Aleut: Tanax̂ Amix̂ or Sanpuulax̂, Russian: Сент-Пол, romanized: Sent-Pol) is a city in the Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska, United States. It is the main settlement of Saint Paul Island in the Pribilof Islands, an archipelago in the Bering Sea. The population was 413 at the 2020 census, down from 479 in 2010. The three closest islands to Saint Paul Island are Otter Island to the southwest, Saint George slightly to the south, and Walrus Island to the east. St. Paul Island's land area is 43 sq mi (110 km2). In 2008, it had one school with 76 students, one post office, one bar, one small store, and one church (the Russian Orthodox Sts. Peter and Paul Church), which is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The island was one of the last places where woolly mammoths survived, until around 5,600 years ago.

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