A view of "down town" St. Paul on a rare sunny afternoon, from Reef Point looking north across Gorbalch Bay. According to the US Bureau of Labor and Statistics, roughly 500 people live within the city of St. Paul, although that number is likely slightly inflated. Prior to the discovery of the Pribilofs by Russian fur traders in 1786, St. Paul island has uninhabited. Native Aleut people never made the journey out this far, and with the weather we've been experiencing lately, that's not surprising. The Russian-American Fur Company did however bring Aleut people over from Atka and Unalaska as slaves to harvest northern fur seals, several years after the discovery of the islands. Many years later, after fur pelts went out of fashion and the demand for fat-oil subsided, the federal government eventually granted the Aleuts of St. Paul a pardon. They now manage a small subsidence harvest of the fur seals ever year.
Canon EOS 60D, Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM, ISO-100 f/10 @ 160 sec, 8 image panorama stitched using Photoshop CS.
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