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A northern odyssey

A northern odyssey
Komandorskiye Ostrova — the Commander Islands in English — are about as bleak and remote as anywhere imaginable for human habitation. Indeed, the two islands in the group, named Bering and Medny, support only one hardy community of fewer than 1,000 souls in a settlement called Nikolskoye on Bering Island. The last, most westernly outliers of the Aleutian chain stretching between Alaska and …

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