Unalakleet is an adaptation of the Iñupiaq word "Una-la-thliq", [3] which means "from the southern side".. Unalakleet is located at the Norton Sound end of the Unalakleet-Kaltag Portage, an important winter travel route between Norton Sound and the Yukon River.Unalakleet has long been a major trade center between the Athabascan people, who lived in the interior of Alaska, and the Inupiat, who ...

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14 hours ago · Unalakleet is a small coastal community on the western coast of Alaska off Norton Sound, and Nome is around 141 miles to the northwest. Phil Helsel. Phil Helsel is a reporter for NBC News.

Unalakleet is a rural northwestern Alaskan community. Located 148 miles southeast of Nome and 395 miles northwest of Anchorage, Unalakleet sits on the coast of the Norton Sound at the mouth of the Unalakleet River.

The Bering Air plane took off from Unalakleet, a small community of 690 people, at 2:37 p.m. local time on Thursday, and officials lost contact with it less than an hour later, according to the ...

Unalakleet / "Uŋalaqłiq" is a city in located at the mouth of the Unalakleet River, 148 miles southeast of Nome. There are about 750 residents living in Unalakleet year-round.

14 hours ago · A Bering Air flight from Unalakleet to Nome failed to land as scheduled at 4 p.m. on Thursday, sending local and federal officials into a mad dash to locate the missing aircraft, the Alaska ...

1 day ago · ORIGINAL REPORT: A Bering Air plane is missing as it flew back to Nome from Unalakleet on Thursday late afternoon.Bering Air’s David Olson said that the plane is considered missing, it has nine people on board, one crew. “We are actively gathering details and mobilizing emergency assistance,” Olson said.

The village of Unalakleet is located about 150 miles southeast of Nome where the Unalakleet River meets the Norton Sound. Two main attractions bring visitors to this remote village Alaska’s western Arctic: world-class salmon fishing in summer and the Iditarod in winter.

The clear, smooth waters of the Unalakleet Wild and Scenic River (WSR) meander gently among the rolling Nulato Hills and across the broad expanses of the active tundra to the seaside village of Unalakleet, Alaska, at the rocky shores of the Norton Sound.