St. Paul Island is the largest of four Alaskan volcanic islands (the Pribilof Islands) located in the Bering Sea between the United States and Russia. It is also a part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. The island is triangulated by Otter Island to the southwest, Saint George to the south and Walrus Island to the east. St Paul Island has the largest Aleut (a native Alaskan) community in the United States.
The Pribilof Islands are home to nearly 50% of the northern fur seals worldwide, and have also found succulent references in Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Jungle Book.’
St. PaulSt. Paul is the only residential area in Saint Paul Island. It is also home to 287 bird species and a notable marine life. You would find several seabirds, parakeet, tufted puffin, thick-billed and common murre and long-tailed ducks here. The Pribilof Islands is home to nearly 50% of the northern fur seals worldwide- and once you land on St Paul, you might even come across some individual rookeries that contain over 100000 seals!
Sts. Peter and Paul ChurchSts. Peter and Paul Church is an early 20th century Russian Orthodox Church on St. Paul Island in Alaska. This more than a hundred year old church is the third of its kind on the island and is predated by two churches that were built in 1779 and 1819. Sts Peter and Paul Church is regarded as a ‘one of the most ambitiously designed and effectively executed small churches of the Byzantine tradition in Alaska.’