
Expedition
Log

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August 14, 2001
Souvenir Album:
St. Matthew Island
and Hall Island
Images (click images for a
larger view)
St. Matthew Island
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Sea mounts
from the shore of St. Matthew Island. (Photo by
National Ocean Service, NOAA).
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A young gray
whale skeleton that had washed ashore, notice the
baleen. Baleen is used to filter plankton. (Photo
by National Ocean Service, NOAA).
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A brown
lemming outside the entrance to his nest. Lemming
networks crisscrossed the tundra on St. Matthew.
(Photo by National Ocean Service, NOAA).
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Hall Island
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Common murres
and thick-billed murres nest near each other on a
cliff at Hall Island. (Photo by National Ocean
Service, NOAA).
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Common murres
nesting on a cliff at Hall Island. (Photo by
National Ocean Service, NOAA).
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Juvenile male
Steller Sea Lions curiously investigate the Zodiacs
off of Hall Island. Steller Sea Lions live in
coastal waters of the North Pacific and have
breeding rookeries throughout the region. Hall
Island is a haul-out area for juvenile males, they
can weight more than a ton. (Photo by National
Ocean Service, NOAA).
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A large group
of Steller Sea Lions swims together watching and
playfully following the Zodiacs. Steller Sea Lion
numbers have declined since the 1970s and the
species was listed as threatened on the Endangered
Species Act in 1990. (Photo by National Ocean
Service, NOAA).
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