Coastal Settlements in Alaska - Nome, Alaska, Coffman Cove, Alaska, Gravina Island (Paperback)

Chapters: Nome, Alaska, Coffman Cove, Alaska, Gravina Island. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Nome, Alaska - Gold Pan, Anvil City SquareThe origin of the city's name "Nome" is still under debate. The city's name may come from a point of land located twelve miles (19 km) from the city. Cape Nome received its name from an error, when a British mapmaker copied a map annotation made by a British officer on a voyage up the Bering Strait. The officer had written "? Name" next to the unnamed cape. The mapmaker misread the annotation as "C. Nome," or Cape Nome, and used that name on his map. The name may also have been given by Nome's founder, Jafet Lindeberg. Within trekking distance of his childhood home in Kvaenangen, Norway, there is a Nome valley (norwegian: Nomedalen). In February 1899, some local miners and merchants voted to change the name from Nome to Anvil City, because of the confusion with Cape Nome, 12 miles (19 km) south, and the Nome River, the mouth of which is four miles (6 km) south of Nome. The United States Post Office in Nome refused to accept the change. Fearing a move of the post office to Nome City, a mining camp on the Nome River, the merchants unhappily agreed to change the name of Anvil City back to Nome. Nome is located at (64.503877, -163.399409). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 21.6 square miles (56 km), of which, 12.5 square miles (32 km) of it is land and 9.1 square miles (23.6 km) of it (41.99%) is water. Nome has a subarctic climate (Koppen Dfc), with long, very cold winters, and short, cool summers. However, conditions in both winter and summer are moderated by the city's coastal location: temperatures are at their lowest in late January/early February, with February being t...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=10556