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.

• Added image of Seattle to Tom's Non-Nome Image Gallery
• Added Nome webcam reverse-angle image to Tom's Nome Photo Gallery
• Added January sunrise and February Front Street images to Tom's Nome Photo Gallery
  
• Added link to the Alaska Pacific River Forecast Center, which features snow depth information throughout Alaska
• Added link to Images of Nome available for sale at Alaska Stock Images
• Added link to USDA Rural Development Nome office
• Added link to Nova Gold Corp, owner of Nome's Rock Creek Mine
• deleted 16 nonworking links and found new addresses for 9 others
• added image of Nome blizzard conditions of April 3, 2008
• added images of the Nome Post Office and the last power pole at Banner Creek
• added link to the Internet Movie Data Base, on the Links of no special interest to Nome, but which Tom enjoys anyway page
• added link to "Subsistence Salmon Fishing by Residents of Nome, Alaska 2001" by James Magdanz, Sandra Tahbone, Kurt Kamletz and Austin Ahmasuk.  A definitive paper on the subject.
  

• City of Nome web cam, viewing the Nome Visitor's Center and the Bering Sea beyond
• A Nome web cam by Tom Guilliam
• Alaska Mining and Diving Supply's list of Alaska web cams
  

• KNOM AM/FM, which I managed for 30 years, 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
• City of Nome
• Nome Volunteer Fire Department
• Nome's Kegoayah Kozga Library
  
• Northwest (Nome) Campus, University of Alaska
• Kawerak, Inc., the Bering Strait Native Corporation's nonprofit arm
• Nome Eskimo Community, Nome's IRA tribal council
  
• Sitnasuak Native Corporation, Nome's for-profit village native corporation, pronounced SITT-nah-swahk
• King Island Native Corporation, based in Nome
  
• Nome Rotary Club, which meets Wednesday noon at the Polar Cub restaurant
• Norton Sound Health Corporation, which operates Nome's hospital
• Nome Chamber of Commerce
• Norton Sound Economic Development Corporation
• Nome's Airport Pizza, with truly gourmet pizzas, plus burgers, salads, espresso and more
• Anvil Mountain Correctional Center
• Rasmussen's Music Mart
  
• Nome Kennel Club, the world's oldest sled dog mushing association
• Aurora Inn, Nome's newest hotel
  
• Nomad Shelter, Nome business selling handcrafted yurts  (A yurt is a round shelter.)
• Morgan Snowmachine Sales
• Alaska Commercial Company, Nome's largest grocery store
• NovaGold, owner of Nome's former Alaska Gold Company
  
• Nome Public Schools
• e-mail historic questions about Nome to the Carrie M. McLain Museum
• Lewis & Thomas PC law offices in Nome
• Nome Joint Utilities System, with water quality reports
• Idita-Walk.You can participate from anywhere in the world, and help the Nome Volunteer Ambulance Service
• nomegifts.com, with gift shop links
• Rid Alaska of Child Abuse Nome resources page
• U.S. Census Bureau 2000 data for Nome
• Nome Community Center
• Nome's Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC)
• Nova Gold Corp, owner of Nome's Rock Creek Mine
  
• Nome's Rock Creek Gold Mine technical paper
• e-mail Nome's McClintock Surveying
• USDA Rural Development Nome office
  

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Nome tourist and hunting and fishing links

• map of Nome from mapquest
  
• Nome, Alaska's official home page, from the Nome Convention and Visitors Bureau.
• listing of Nome hotels, restaurants and tours, with phone numbers, from WelcomeToAlaska.com
• Nome's Aurora Inn hotel and Stampede vehicle rentals
  
• Alaska Airlines' vacation packages to Nome
• Idita-Tours, operated by Howad and Julie Farley
• Gold Prospectors Assoc. of America operates the wildly po;ular Cripple River Mining Camp 10 mi. west.
• GPAA's Cripple River Mining Camp home page
• 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.
• Dog mushing tours from  Alaskan Northwest Adventures...great hunting and fishing guided by Tom Gray of White Mountain, 77 mi. east.
• John Elmore's Grayling-on-a-Fly, formerly Camp Bendeleben, on the Niukluk (NYUCK-luk) River
• Iditarod Sled Dog Race adventure tour offered by Adventure Alaska Tours, Inc.
• Twin Peaks Adventures, featuring helicopter and fload guided fishing trips around the Seward Peninsula.  Their web site also features some great images.
  
• Nome day hikes, a guide which a couple of us wrote for the Nome Convention and Visitors Center.
• Circumpolar Expeditions, including excursions to the Russian Far East
• Alaska Wildland Adventures' tours of Kotzebue and Nome
  
• Chandalar River Outfitters Seward Peninsula hunts
• list of Nome hotels and B&B's that we compiled for KNOM visitors in 2001
• Ultima Thule lodge.  It's not in this area, but owner Paul Claus flies tourists up the Iditarod trail in style, for $6,000 per person.
• fairbanks-alaska.com's Nome page
• Bering Land Bridge National Preserve home page
• adventure-crew.com's information on the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
  

Nome amateur radio links (I'm NL7H)

• Seward Peninsula Amateur Radio Club
  
• qrz.com, callsign lookup and lots more.

Statistics and economics, plus nearby village information

• Alaska cities' population, 2000 Census
• Nome new hires by occupation.
• + Remote Villages, data from the State of Alaska's Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development.  Fascinating, detailed  and current information.
• Village information from Kawerak, Inc., for the Bering Straits region

• Alaska Igloo Links, with links to many Alaska web pages
• ExploreNorth home page with extensive links of interest to Alaska and Canada
• ExploreNorth's Nome page, with fascinating links
• address.com's Nome phone number search, including a reverse directory

Nome Native Corporations and other native links

• Bering Straits Native Corporation, one of Alaska's 13 regional corporations
• Sitnasuak Native Corporation, the village corporation for Nome
• Annotated explanation of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act by Paul Ongtooguk
• Alaska Native Language Center.  Lots of information!
• Alaska Native Heritage Center, Anchorage
• Arctic Circle, a wealth of anthropologican information and links by Univ. of Connecticut's Norman Chance
• Inuit Circumpolar Conference, the alliance of all northern peoples
• First Nations Development Institute
• Exhaustive aol.com listing of Native American links
• Alaska Native Arts Foundation, displaying and selling Native arts and crafts
  

Nome birdwatching links

• Birding information from Nome Convention and Visitors Bureau
• Jack Cole's account of 1999 birding in Nome, Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society
• An account, with images, of May 2001 birding in Nome, from camacdonald.com
• Nome is a terrific birding area! Lots of rare Asians, according to fieldguides.com.
• Ralph Paonessa Photography's Nome birding tours
• American Birding Association.  Search for "Nome" to find tsponsored trips, etc.
• Wings Birding Tours of the Seward Peninsula
• Nome Birding images, from Matt Hagadorn Bird Photography
• birdphotography.com.  From this page, search for "Nome" to find Nome bird images
• 2004 Nome birding images by Scott Hein
  

Iditarod Race information and other Iditarod Trail and musher links

• The Iditarod Race Home Page, official race standings.  A continuingly  improved site with many links.
• Iditarod National Historic Trail home page
  
• Cabela's Iditarod page, featuring periodic articles by Jon Little
  
• "Iditarod 411," frequently updated with items of interest to Iditarod fans, by Jan Wong
• About dogteams by Stephen R. Lee.  Lots of information.
• workingdogweb.com, hosted by Heritage North Press
• Mushing magazine
• The Serum Run '25 event
• Sled Dog Central, with lots of information and hundreds of sled dog links
• International Sled Dog Racing Association (ISDRA)
• International Federation of Sled Dog Sports, Inc.
• Mush with P.R.I.D.E.  (Providing Responsible Information on a Dog's Environment)
• dogsled.com with mushing news, race results, photos, etc.
• Mushing Boot Camp, with Minnesota and Oregon locations
• All-time Iditarod Rankings by Stephen Drake.  An astonishing amount of work went into this.
• All-time rookie Iditarod rankings by Stephen Drake
  
• Interesting article by videographer Michael Audick on covering the Iditarod Race, from icommag.com
• Iditarod National Millennium Trail, Inc.
• Junior Iditarod Race official home page
• June Price's sunhusky.com, with lots of Iditarod information, including Don Bowers' history of the Iditarod Trail
• Ultima Thule lodge.  It's not in this area, but owner Paul Claus flies tourists up the Iditarod trail in style, for $6,000 per person.
• Lucidcafé's account of the1925 dogsled relay of diptheria serum to Nome  which inspired the founding of the Iditarod Race, sort of .
• History of the Siberian Husky in North America by the Siberian Husky Club of North America
  
 
Veteran Iditarod Musher Home Pages:
• Sue Allen
  
• Ken Anderson
• Peter Bartlett
• Kjetil Backen
  
• Bill Borden
• Ramy Brooks
• Martin Buser, 4-time champion
• Todd Capistrant
  
• Paul Ellering
  
• Nikolai Ettyne
• Pam Flowers
  
• Joran Freeman
• Gwen Holdmann
  
• G. B. Jones
• Dexter Kancer
  
• Carla Kelly
• Ararad Khatchikian
  
• Jeff King, 3-time champion
• Karen Land
  
• Lance Mackey
• Steve Madsen
• Hugh Neff
• Jacques Philip
• Lynda Plettner/Dan Govoni
  
• Ray Redington, Jr.
  
• Ryan Redington
  
• Jessica Royer
• Palmer Sagoonik (nonworking as of May 2004)
• Mitch Seavey, 2004 champion
  
• Mary Shields
• Frank Sihler
• Perry Solmonson
  
• Robert Sørlie, 2003 champion
• Gerald Sousa
• Bennie Stamm
• Ed Stielstra
  
• Jim Warren
  
• Matt Weik
  
• Aliy Zirkle

Other sled dog races of interest to Nome

• All Alaska Sweepstakes, set for March 26, 2008, commemorating the 100th anniversary of this legendary Seward Peninsula race 
• Kuskokwim 300
  
• Kobuk 440
• John Beargrease

 Snowmachine (Alaska jargon for "snowmobile") races of interest to Nome

• Anchorage-to-Nome and return Iron Dog
  

Nome churches

• List of Nome churches with phone numbers from Church Angel
  
• Nome's Evangelical Covenant Church
  

Northern Lights (Aurora)

• breathtaking photos of the northern lights from Nome by John Russell, with great auroral links
• 28-day and 1-hour auroral forecasts from the University of Alaska's Geophysical Institute
  
• Real time auroral charts.... Incredible!
• Mount Aurora Fairbanks Creek Lodge's aurorawebcam.com
  
• spaceweather.com, with auroral and solar wind information
• auroral image taken from the International Space Station
  

Nome's weather

Note: There are several commercial entities producing 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.  Though better, I suggest taking the NWS forecast with a grain of salt, too.

* = pages frequently visited by Tom

• * National Weather Service current conditions for Nome, including the METAR ob and the past 24 hours'  observations.
• National Weather Service Nome Home Page
  
• National Weather Service current conditions for other individual communities in Alaska, including the METAR ob and the past 24 hours' observations.    Caution:  many stations are automated.   If the equipment goes down, these pages will display the most recent observation, which could be days old.
• Current conditions for remote Seward Peninsula points, including Council, Skookum and Kougarok, from UAF's Water and Environmental Research Center
• * Current conditions for Johnson's Camp, in an often very windy stretch of Iditarod Trail 45 mi. east of Nome.  Select Johnson's Camp from the available choices.
• * List of abbreviated current conditions for 85 Alaska communities (ABAK32PANC)
• Current conditions for Anadyr, Chukotka, Russia
• * Forecast for Nome from NWS (Southern Seward Peninsula Coast, AKZ211, about halfway down the document) (FPAK52PAFG)
• National Weather Service Alaska Region home page
• *Alaska POES (polar orbiting) satellite visual and infrared weather images
• *Alaska GOES (geostationary) satellite visual and infrared weather images
• * Alaska Aviation Weather Unit current weather map, with links to other products, including 3- 4- and 5-day prognosis maps
• + Alaska Aviation Weather Unit 24-, 36-, 48- and 60-hour prognosis maps
• * Ice Desk, NOAA Anchorage, with sea ice charts and predictions
• NOAA's Alaska Pacific River Forecast Center
  
• + Jet stream information, from California Regional Weather Server
  
• Today's sunrise/set, with maximum elevation angle
• Today's moonrise/set for Nome
• Nome climatological graphs from the Geophysical Institute. Fascinating!
• long-term temperature graph and other information from the Geophysical Institute
  
• Nome climate data from the Western Regional Climate Center. Fall freeze probabilities, snow averages and lots, lots more
• Nome monthly climate extremes and averages from usatoday.com
• Climate data for other Alaskan towns from the Western Regional Climate Center
• timeanddate.com's Nome page, with weather, sun and moon positions, and links to distances from Nome to other points.
  

Nome Transportation

• Alaska Airlines, Nome's primary carrier, daily 737-200 jets from Anchorage
• Tom's unofficial Alaska Airlines 737-200 page, with manufacture dates, images, etc.
• Bering Air, bush flights to area villages
• Grant Aviation, connecting to the Yukon Delta
• Northern Air Cargo
• Lynden Air Cargo
• Frontier Flying Service
• Hageland Aviation
• Northland Services freight barge service from Seattle
  
• airnav.com'sNome Airport
• Nome Airport FAA image 1 image 2
• airnav.com's Nome City Field
• Nome City Field FAA image1image2
• FAA's Alaska Region home page
• "Aviation Access to Remote Locations in Alaska," an FAA study for the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, May 2001 (requires Adobe Acrobat)
• Bureau of Transportation Statistics Airline Ontime Statistics Page.  Choose an airport, such as Nome, and an airline, such as Alaska Airlines.
  

Volcanos of the Seward Peninsula

Most Nomeites don't think about it, but the Seward Peninsula is quite volcanic.  The Killeak and Devil Mountain Lakes of the Northern Seward Peninsula are maars, and, in fact, are the largest volcanic openings on earth.  Just to the south, the vast Imuruk "Lost Jim" lava field is the result of an eruption as recent as about 300 AD.  On the jet between Nome and Kotzebue, the Killeak Lakes are easily visible a few miles west of the flight path, near Cape Espenberg, and the lava bed is clearly visible to the east, a bit farther south.

• U.S. Fish & Wildlife aerial image of the Imuruk Lava Field
• From the Smithsonian Institution, a Landsat image of the lava field
• "Geology of the Imuruk Lake Area of the Seward Peninsula, Alaska" by D.M.Hopkins
• Geologic map of the Imuruk Lake area from the Alaska Volcano Observatory.  Caution:  this is a 25 MB file!
• Also from AVO, a map of volcanic vaults, vents and warped surfaces of the Imuruk Lake area (315 kB)
• AVO's page on the Cape Espenberg area maars
  
• Alaska Volcano Observatory's index of articles on the Imuruk Lake area
• Alaska Volcano Observatory home page
• AlaskaReport's page on the Devil Mountain Lake maars
• "The Largest Known Maars on Earth, Seward Peninsula, Northwest Alaska" by Beget, Hopkins and Charron, 1995,  from the University of Calgary
  
• University of Alaska Geophysical Institute "Alaska Science Forum" article on the Espenberg maars by Neil Davis
  

Other pages of interest to Nome, Alaska

• Nome items on e-bay
  
• Tom Guilliam's  home page
• + Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska. A fascinating site, developed by fascinating people
• Recent Earthquakes in Alaska page, from Geophysical's Alaska Earthquake Information Center
• +  Anchorage Daily News, Alaska's largest newspaper
• Map of the Provideniya region of Chukotka, Russia, just across the Strait
• + Incredibly cool! Predictions of visible satellite passes, including Iridium flares, for Nome
• 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.
• California Academy of Sciences, art and the history of legendary local artists  Robert Mayokok,, George Ahgupuk and James Kivetoruk Moses
• 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.
• + Map of the sky (stars/planets) for Nome right now from Weather Underground
• "Beringia upland tundra" (Seward Peninsula) by World Wildlife Fund
• Polar Bears Alive, an organization with lots of information about polar bears
• whitealice.com, a fan site for the White Alice Communications System.  Anvil Mountain's four 60-foot parabolic antennas were part of this visionary 1950's defense system, which provided Nome its first long distance telephone circuits before satellites took over in 1974.
• Commercial Fisheries index page, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
• AlaskaClassifiedAds.com.  Not a Nome-oriented page, but it has potential.
• Alaska Sex Offender Registration Central Registry, searchable by name, Zip Code, or Alaska community
• TheBering Strait Odyssey 2005, a planned balloon flight across the strait.  Click on the "Expeditions" link for information.
• Alaska Paleoglacier Atlas map of the extent of Seward Peninsula glaciation
• Alaska Native Language Center
• Alaska Legal Resource Center.  Research statutes, court decisions, criminal rules, etc.
• Idita-Splash 2004.  Exercise along with your friends in Nome!
• Idita-Walk 2004.  Ditto.
• timeanddate.com's table of distances to nearby cities from Nome
• + For that matter, calculate the bee-line distance from almost any point on earth to any other, thanks to indo.com.
• timeanddate.com's list of distances from Nome to other points,  some of which, such as Anadyr, Russia, are hard to find elsewhere
  
• list of political contributions by Nome individuals, from city-data.com
  

Images and other archives

+ = Tom especially recommends

+ Over 700 images by the legendary Lomen Brothers of Nome and other Alaska points, from the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta.  Search for "nome."

+ 36 album pages from the Butler Brothers Nome photo album, 1900 and 1901, University of Alaska Fairbanks

88 Images of gold rush Nome from the University of Washington's Eric A. Hegg collection

Historic photos, many of Nome, from the Frank G. Carpenter collection

A few historic Nome images from arcticwebsite.com

September 1900 Nome gelatin silver print images, Library of Congress

Prints Old and Rare, with antique images for sale, some from Nome.

6 panoramic images of Nome 1899-1908, from the Library of Congress.  From this main page, search for Nome.

+ 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

+ beautiful Nome images by PRISMA Design and Photography

History of Nome Public Schools 1899-1958, a master's thesis by the late John Poling

historic images of Nome from Explore North

dozens of images of Nome on webshots.com

educational article on Nome as a boom town by Christine Crooks

Nome postmarks, on a sub-page of Fa. C. Esveld, a nursery in Holland

 + breathtaking photos of the northern lights from Nome by John Russell, with great auroral links

fybush.com's article on Nome's radio towers

+ Dozens of incredible April 2004 monochrome images of Nome by Stephen Cysewski

images of Nome's October 19, 2004 storm by Scotty Webber, on nomegifts.com

over 500 photos of Nome posted to flickr.com

article on Nome's Labor Day Bathtub Race by former KNOM'er Andrew McDonnell in Notre Dame magazine

article on Nome's Labor Day Bathtub Race by Lynn Seldon

79 historic images of Nome from the University of Washington Museum archives

+ topozone.com's incredible USGS topographic maps of virtually every terrain feature near Nome

Images ofNome and the area from Nome's Anvil City Science Academy

Images of Nome and the area by Nomeites Jim and Carol

Seward Peninsula photos by Jamie Saghafi

Images of Nome available for sale at Alaska Stock Images

"Subsistence Salmon Fishing by Residents of Nome, Alaska 2001" by James Magdanz, Sandra Tahbone, Kurt Kamletz and Austin Ahmasuk.  A definitive paper on the subject.

• Nome and region images
• The majestic Kigluaik Mountains, 25 miles north of Nome

Links of no interest to Nome, but which Tom enjoys anyway
 

Tom's Nome-based novels, currently seeking an agent, or a publisher.  Tom would be happy to e-mail you a manuscript, if only just for fun.

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.  Approximately 50% complete.

Every few weeks, 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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