Thursday, 14 August 2014

Ukivok: The Haunting Alaskan Ghost Village Clinging To An Inhospitable Cliff Face

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Ukivok, the rugged, abandoned stilt village on Alaska's King Island is one of the world's most isolated and impressive ghost towns.

Clinging precariously to the face of a sheer cliff that overhangs the unforgiving Bering Sea some 40 miles west of Cape Douglas, the enigmatic wooden ruins were once home to several hundred native Inupiat hunter-gatherers known as Aseuluk, or 'people of the sea,'

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