Nome, Alaska Links
by Tom Busch
Whether it's Iditarod
information,
Nome businesses, the latest weather or the auroral forecast, here is a
comprehensive set of links of interest to Nome, AK 99762.
As Nome's Internet pipe remains pretty thin, this is primarily
text-based.
Nome
organizations and businesses
- KNOM
AM/FM, which I manage, has won dozens of major awards, and the loyalty
of 95% of Eskimo villagers for 100,000 square miles.
- KICY
AM/FM, our friendly competitors
- Nome
Nugget is Alaska's oldest continuously published newspaper.
- Northwest
(Nome) Campus, University of Alaska
- Sitnasuak
Native Corporation, Nome's village native corporation, pronounced
SITT-nah-swahk.
- Anvil
Squadron, Civil Air Patrol
- Nome
Rotary Club, which meets Wednesday noon at the Polar Cub restaurant
- Norton
Sound Health Corporation, which operates Nome's hospital.
- Anvil
Mountain
Correctional
Center
- Nome
Kennel Club, the world's oldest sled dog mushing association.
- Arctic
Trading Post, a Nome gift shop with carved ivory, Alaskan art and
much
more.
- AuDredge
gold nuggets and jewelry
- The
Nugget Inn, Nome's largest hotel.
- Nomad
Shelter, Nome business selling handcrafted yurts. (A yurt is a
round
shelter.)
- Nome
public schools
- Anvil
City Science Academy, Nome's charter school
- Bering
Strait Community Partnership resource directory
- Morgan
Snowmachine Sales
- Alaska
Commercial Company, Nome's largest grocery store
- Fort
Davis Roadhouse restaurant
- NovaGold,
owner of Nome's former Alaska Gold Company. Note: I have a
Win95/Netscape 4.73 computer which this site always locks up as it
loads.
It does not lock up my Win98/Netscape 4.73 computer.
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Nome
tourist-oriented
links
- Nome,
Alaska's official home page, from the Nome Convention and Visitors
Bureau.
- Alaska
Airlines'
vacation
packages to Nome
- Idita-Tours,
operated by Howad and Julie Farley
- Custom
Nome tours by Robin Thomas
- Gold
Prospectors
Assoc.
of
America operates a wildly popular tourist gold
camp 10 mi. west.
- Bering
Land Bridge National Preserve. Fifty visitors a year, maybe? Much
flora/fauna
information.
- Austin's
Alaska Adventures with Iditarod veteran Jerry Austin, in the
village of St. Michael.
- Alaskan
Northwest Adventures...great fishing guided by Tom Gray of White
Mountain,
77 mi. east.
- Unalakleet
River Lodge...more great fishing.
- John Elmore's Camp
Bendeleben on the Niukluk (NYUCK-luk) River
- Iditarod
Sled Dog Race adventure tour offered by Adventure Alaska Tours, Inc.
- Marlin
Travel, describing 13-day cruises to Nome, Provideniya and above
the
Arctic Circle.
- Nome
day hikes, a guide which a couple of us wrote for the Nome
Convention
and Visitors Center.
- Sub-Arctic
Wilderness Tours, Inc, operating from Nome with birding and
photo
safaris of the Seward Peninsula
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Nome
amateur
radio links (I'm NL7H)
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Statistics
and
economics,
plus
nearby
village
information
Other
lists of Nome web pages
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Nome
Native
Corporations and other native links
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Nome
birdwatching
links
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Iditarod
Race
Information
(current
as
of
March 2001)
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Nome churches
Northern Lights (Aurora)
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Nome's
weather
Note: There are several
commercial
entities producing slick-looking but unchecked computerized forecasts
for
Nome, with accuracy that I judge to be pretty bum. I recommend
the
National Weather Service's products, which are developed by human
beings
in Fairbanks and locally. Still, the extended forecasts by
NWS and others are based upon computer models and are often very,
very
wrong.
- Current
conditions for Nome with past 24 hours of observations
- Forecast
for
Nome
from
NWS (Southern Seward Peninsula Coast, AKZ211, about
halfway
down the document)
- National
Weather Service Alaska Region home page
- Nome's
latest
NEXRAD
radar
image. Note:
NEXRAD has two modes: -28 to +28 DBZ clear mode, +5 to +75 in precip.
mode.
- Animated
loop
of
the
past
hour's
Nome NEXRAD radar images. Note the two
modes, as above, one for clouds, one for precipitation.
- Current
conditions for Alaska communities
- Current
conditions for Provideniya, Chukotka, Russia (conditions posted
very
occasionally)
- Current
conditions for Anadyr, Chukotka, Russia
- National
Weather Service, Alaska: weather maps, advisories, links to
within-the-hour
satellite images and many forecasts, main page
- Current weather map and other graphic images
from the National Weather
Service
- Alaska
Aviation Unit weather map index, with 24-,
36-
and 48-hour prognoses
- Current
weather warnings from the National Weather Service
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Nome
Transportation
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Visionary,
maybe...
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Other
pages
of interest to Nome, Alaska
- nomecam,
operated by nome.net
- Tom Guilliam's Nome
Safeway Cam, and Tom G's home
page
- Geophysical
Institute, University of Alaska. A fascinating site, developed by
fascinating
people
- University
of
Alaska
Fairbanks'
Reindeer
Research
Program
- Alaska Center's thumbnail
of Nome
- Anchorage
Daily News, Alaska's largest newspaper
- Map
of the Provideniya region of Chukotka, Russia, just across the Strait
- Food
inspection
results
for
Nome commercial kitchens, from the state sanitarian.
Yum!
- Food
inspection results for all of Alaska, search by name or by
location.
Double yum!
- Incredibly cool! Predictions
of
visible
satellite
passes,
including
Iridium flares, for Nome
- NASA-based
3-D image of 500 current satellite positions in real time, designed
by Patrick Meyer. Fascinating!
- Computed
images of earth from sun, moon, or one of hundreds of satellites.
Weather
images. For Nome, try a custom image, using Latitude 64N, Longitude
165W.
- Incredible calendar/time
page with many celestial links. This page is almost
overwhelming.
- Nome teacher Samantha
Dunaway
- Alaska
State Representative Richard Foster
- California Academy of
Sciences,
art and the history of legendary local artists Robert
Mayokok, Florence
Nupok
Malewotkut, George
Ahgupuk and James
Kivetoruk
Moses
- Great
Nome area photos by the University of Colorado's Rich Cullather
- US
Geological
Survey
map of Nome
- Correct
Alaska Standard Time from the National Institute of Standards and
Techology.
- Denali Ice Cream's moosetracks.com.
Moose Tracks is currently our family's favorite flavor, though we see
it
rarely, as in Nome it costs about $8 a half gallon.
- Nome
Joint
Utilities System, with water quality reports
- ExploreNorth
home
page with extensive links of interest to Alaska and Canada
- Map
of
the
sky
(stars/planets)
for
Nome right now from Weather Underground
- Caribou
herd locations, using radio collars, from the University of Alaska,
updated every couple of days
- Reindeer
herd locations for the Weyiouanna and Ongtowasruk herds, radio
collar
data, U of A, updated every couple of days
- University
of
Alaska's
Reindeer
Research
Program
- Alaska
Airlines
Mileage
Plan
Dining. Find a restaurant among the 7,000 which
automatically issue miles for meals when you pay with an Alaska
Airlines
charge card
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Images and other archives
Historic
photos,
many
of
Nome, from the Frank G. Carpenter collection
89
Historic Nome Photos by William Hester. Select "Predefined
Search,"
choose "Nome Gold Rush" and click "GO."
September
1900 Nome gelatin silver print images, Library of Congress
Butler
Brothers' gold rush photo album, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Prints
Old and Rare, with antique images for sale, some from Nome.
Smithsonian
Institution's
account
of Nome's first free mail, 1900
Smithsonian
Institution's thumbnail
history
of
the
Nome
gold rush
Alberta
Skenk
and
the
desegregation
of
Nome's "Dreamland" theater, as told
by Muktuk Marston in his book "Men of the Tundra: Alaska Eskimos at
War,"
thanks to the Alaska Native Curriculum and Teacher Development Project.
ExploreNorth's
gallery of historic Nome photos
Tom's photo galleries
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Links
of no interest to Nome, but which Tom enjoys
Tom's Nome-based novels,
currently
seeking an agent, or a publisher. If you're in Nome, Tom'll be
happy
to lend you a manuscript.
Arctic
Medallions combines romance and good old Alaskan
plutonium-smuggling
intrigue. Complete at 104,000 words.
A
Cliff in the Mountains ...familiar characters from "Arctic
Medallions"
find themselves entangled in a dangerous web of secrecy following a
mysterious
plane crash in the Kigluaiks. Complete at 103,000 words.
The
Many Faces of Sledge ...a 50-year-old skull tells stories that
threaten today's richest Alaskan. Complete at 83,000 words.
Tripod
913 ...a trail
of
suspense
surrounds
mysterious
dog deaths during the Iditarod Race.
I'm
still blocking it out. Still haven't figured out the true bad guy.
Tom's
biography
Every sooften, I work to
clean
up this page, adding new links of interest and eliminating links that
have
disappeared. If you discover a link that doesn't work, please let me
know.
If you have a question
about
Nome, or need a little help, or have a link to suggest, don't
hesitate
to e-mail me.
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last update: September 13, 2010
Tom Busch tomnflo@nome.net
