1. Journey to St. Matthew Island The Most Remote Place in Alaska By Marc Romano and Heather Renner

2. St. Matthew Is. Pribilof Is. 200miles > 200 miles Mekoryuk

3. First discovered by the Russians in 1764 Protected as a bird refuge by Teddy Roosevelt in 1909 Included as part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge in 1980 Photo Ned Rozell Visited by the Harriman Expedition in 1899

4. Hall Island Camp Bull Seal Point Camp NASA Photo

5. St. Matthew Expedition Crew

6. Photo Ian Jones

7. St. Matthew Island Reindeer Population

8. “We landed on St. Matthew Island early on a cold gray August morning, and judge our astonishment at finding hundreds of large polar bears... lazily sleeping in grassy hollows, or digging up grass and other roots, browsing like hogs.” -Henry Wood Elliott 1875

9. USFWS PhotoPhoto Rich Kleinleder VS.

10. Map courtesy of American Geographical Society Library

11. Photo Ned Rozell

12. Photos Rich Kleinleder

14. Photo Monte Garroute

16. Photos by Derek Sikes

21. 2012 St. Matthew Island Expedition Participants Marianne Aplin – USFWS Marianne Aplin – USFWS Casey Bickford – UAF Casey Bickford – UAF Steve Delehanty – USFWS Steve Delehanty – USFWS Tony DeGange – USGS Tony DeGange – USGS Monte Garroute – UAF Monte Garroute – UAF Dennis Griffin – State of Oregon Dennis Griffin – State of Oregon David Klein – UAF David Klein – UAF Rich Kleinleder – URS Corp. Rich Kleinleder – URS Corp. Aaron Poe – USFWS Aaron Poe – USFWS Heather Renner – USFWS Heather Renner – USFWS Marc Romano – USFWS Marc Romano – USFWS Ned Rozell – UAF Ned Rozell – UAF Derek Sikes – UAF Derek Sikes – UAF Special thanks to the crew of the M/V Tiglax