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Unalaska

Dutch Harbor: America's biggest fishing port by volume.

Population
4,254 (2020 census)
Russians arrive
1759
Bombed
June 3, 1942

Then

  1. 1759

    Russian fur traders arrive among 24 Unangan settlements.

  2. 1825

    The Church of the Holy Ascension is built.

  3. 1942

    Japanese planes attack Dutch Harbor. Unangan residents are sent to camps in Southeast Alaska.

Now

Unalaska has led US ports in fish landed nearly every year since 1981, and Deadliest Catch is filmed here.

15 tide stations around Unalaska

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