The tiny deserted King Island is 40 miles from the Alaska mainlandFor thousands of years, a small community lived on its rocky banksBut last century, men were shipped to World War II, others lost their lives to TB and fears spread about rock slides - so the inhabitants moved away
bassman5911: King Island goes to war King Island takes up about two to four square miles of the Bering Sea, just south of the Bering Strait. It’s about 30-40 miles from the U.S. coast. In the winter it’s surrounded by the Bering Sea ice pack. Until the late 1950s - 1960s it was home to about 150-200 Inupiat Eskimos in the village of Ugiuvak (or Ukivok, also the Inupiat name for the island). Ugiuvak clung to the side of a cliff, on the south side of the island.