The Seward Peninsula on Alaska's western coast is a remnant of the Bering Land Bridge connecting Siberia with mainland Alaska during the Pleistoscene Ice Age.It projects about 200 miles into the Bering Sea between the Norton Sound, the Bering Strait, the Chukchi Sea, and Kotzebue Sound just south of the arctic circle. Our main interest here was wildlife photography, specifically musk oxen. We traveled with guide Carol Gates of Roam Nome.
Tundra flowers:
Narcissus-flowered anemone, Anemone narcissiflora:
Alpine azalea, Loiseleuria procumbens:
Wooly lousewort, Pedicularis kanei:
Moss campion, Silene acaulis:
Alaska cotton, Eriophoram scheuchzeri:
Dandelion, Taraxacum sp.
Mountain avens, Dryas octopetala
Tall Jacob's ladder, Polemonium acutiflorum:
Lapland diapensia, Diapensia lappnicum ssp. obovata
Alaska poppy, Papaver alaskanum:
Labrador tea, Ledum palustris ssp. groenlandicum:
Purple oxytrope, Oxytropis nigrescens
The main town is Nome, population around 3500.
Three gravel roads link Nome to Council, the Kougarok River, and Teller.
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Nome
Nome-Council Road
Nome-Taylor (Kougarok) Road
Nome-Teller Road