•Colors: Black, Purple Tye Dye, Burly Camo, Lavender, Green
Women's 3/4 Length Puffy Coat
•Sizes: S-3XL •Colors: Plum, Black
•Sizes:
•Sizes: XS-2XL
•Colors: Black Cherry, Burly Camo, Predator Camo, Black
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
2025
ALASKA CASKET
Fun and Games Fun and Games
FINANCIAL TIMES WORD SEARCH
Find the hidden words in the puzzle
ACCOUNT ACCRUAL ALLOCATION
AMORTIZATION APPRAISAL ASSETS
Find the words hidden vertically, horizontally, diagonally, and backwards BALANCE BOND BUDGET DEPRECIATION DIVERSIFY EQUITY GROSS INCOME INTEREST INVEST LIABILITIES MARGINS MARKET NET PERCENTAGE PROFIT RATE STOCK
SUDOKU
(Level - Easy)
The objective is to fill a 9×9 grid so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 boxes (also called blocks or regions) contains the digits from 1 to 9 only one time each.
ACROSS
1. Cut a little bit off
5. State with confidence
11. River in NE Scotland
14. Not narrow
15. Lacking social polish
16. Amount of time
17. Frame
19. Automobile
20. Toadstools
21. High school dances
22. Utilize
23. Challenged
25. One-sided
27. Showing extreme greed
31. Potted plants
34. Everyone has one
35. Lake in Botswana
38. E.T. rode in one
39. Juniors’ parents
41. Small amount
42. Mother of Perseus
CROSSWORD
WORD SEARCH ANSWER
SUDOKU ANSWER
CROSSWORD ANSWER
44. Ornamental box
45. Gov’t investigators
46. Uncertain
49. A cotton fabric with a satiny finish
51. The vast grassy plains in S. America
55. Your consciousness of your own identity
56. Noted consumer advocate
60. Spanish sports club
61. Body part
62. Tractability
64. Woman (French)
65. Ready and willing to be taught
DOWN
1. Brushed aside
2. Water sprite
3. Ones to look up to 4. Monetary units
5. A number everyone has
6. Marine invertebrate
7. One who takes you to court
8. Indicates outer
9. Parallelograms
10. Strains 11. Cross
12. A way to remove
13. Some pages are dog-__
18. Ukraine city
24. A citizen of Denmark
26. Summer month (abbr.)
28. Hindu queens
29. Jewelry brand
30. Fictional rider of Rohan
31. Wet dirt
32. Russian city
33. Observed
36. Furious
37. Drivers’ licenses
Musical composition
Auction 43. They __
Women
Inspire with love 48. Japanese ankle sock
Appears 50. Old World lizard 52. The leading performer 53. Type of protein 54. Pennsylvania town 57. Art __: around 1920 58. __ Blyton, children’s author 59. Abnormal breathing 63. A place to sleep 66. Muslim ruler title 67. Depressed 68. Gradually gave way
Clear-thinking
When the Civil War came to Alaska
Ned Rozell
About 150 years ago, a few days a er summer solstice, the gray skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ships set ablaze by Confederate sailors who didn’t know the Civil War had ended.
“ e red glare from the eight burning vessels shone far and wide over the dri ing ice of these savage seas,” wrote an o cer aboard the Shenandoah, a ship commissioned by Confederate leaders to wreak havoc on Yankee whalers who were harvesting bowhead whales o the western and northern coasts of Alaska. ough their timing was o — the Civil War was over for two months when the Shenandoah reached Alaska waters from England (a er an eight-month trip around the southern capes of Africa and Australia) — the captain and crew of the Shenandoah succeeded in destroying the Yankee eet, burning 22 whaling ships and capturing two others.
“It was the last hurrah of whaling — the place where commercial whaling died in the U.S.,” said Brad Barr, a biologist with NOAA’s O ce of National Marine Sanctuaries in Woods Hole, Mass.
Barr and NOAA historians and archaeologists are interested in the o en-overlooked history of Yankee whalers that rst came to Alaska waters in 1848, nding a bonanza of bowhead whales. Weighing 100,000 pounds each and living their entire lives in waters
with sea ice, the largest bowheads have two feet of blubber protecting them from cold northern oceans.
Whalers boiled down that fatty tissue to render about 120 barrels of oil from each whale. A century before an exploration crew found crude oil at Prudhoe Bay, whale oil and exible bones known as baleen were the target of whalers who set out for the Arctic from eastern ports, such as Mystic, Connecticut, and New Bedford, Mass.
“ ey took (bowheads) like they were going out of style — at least until they took too many, and the whales were harder to nd and harder to catch,” Barr said.
Along with the last shots of the Civil War red from Confederate cannons, the waters o Alaska were the site of 32 whaling ships trapped in sea ice and destroyed by it in 1871.
When 12 more ships were stranded north of Barrow (now Utqiaġvik) in 18971898, that inspired the U.S. government to commission a reindeer drive of 400 animals from Nome to Barrow as food for the stranded whalers (that turned out not to be needed).
“ ere are all of these compelling stories of heroes and villains and survival,” Barr said. “Like the 32 ships trapped in the ice in 1871. Twelvehundred-and-sixteen people had to abandon ship and drag their (smaller) whaleboats across the ice. ey were rescued by seven ships that weren’t caught in the ice, and brought to Honolulu.”
Somewhere on the sea oor o western and northern Alaska are the waterlogged remains of those days
long ago.
“ We’ve identi ed 160 ships lost or abandoned from 1848 to 1914,” Barr said. “For the most part, nobody’s been able to nd them, mostly due to operational di culties in the Chukchi and Beaufort (seas).”
While mapping the sea oor o shore of Wainwright and Utqiaġvik in 2015, Barr and his colleagues found three pieces of wreckage, likely from two di erent whaling ships.
As for the bowhead whales, their population north and west of Alaska is now at more than 15,000. at’s a rebound from the 1,000 animals that remained when the last Yankee whaler harvested one in the late 1800s. is column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer at the institute.
Courtesy Ted and Ellie Congdon, Huntington Library. is painting, “Abandonment of the Whalers in e Arctic Ocean September 1871,” depicts the New England whaling ships trapped in pack ice o northern Alaska. Wainwright Inlet is in the background.
Photo courtesy NOAA.
Researchers with NOAA’s O ce of National Marine Sanctuaries in Woods Hole, Mass., discovered this anchor, chain plate (the metal loop) and an iron knee, likely part of a ship’s ame, on a 2015 search for remains of a whaling eet lost o northern Alaska in 1871.
Addyson Faye Cook Age 10, Valdez
Brooklynn Boulden Age 6, Seward
Angel Slats Age 9, Chevak
Callie Age 8, Sawmill Bay
Artie John Kameroff Jr. 14 mo., Lower Kalskag
Cameron Inakak Age 8, Tununak
Aubree Hobson Age 11, Nondalton
Drake Slats Age 6, Chevak
Coloring Page SUBMISSIONS
Draycee Slats Age 6, Chevak
Jason Whittaker Age 15, Glennallen
Learah M. Kilangak Age 18, Emmonak
Shelby Zacharof Age 11, Pilot Station
Emmitt Ivanoff Age 6, Unalakleet
Jennifer Abraham Age 11, Bethel
Loveigha Atcherian-Boyscout
Sirrinda Murphy Age 7, Mountain Village
Hazel Mae Schwantes Age 3, Dillingham
John Balister Age 10, Delta Junction
Ryan Christiansen Age 4, Old Harbor
Trixie, Brian & Mart Belden
Iqutaq & Antone Andrew Ages 4 & 6, Tuluksak
Juliana Bell Age 7, Tok
Ryan Age 4, Valdez
Winter McClure Age 11, Willow
Hi Kids! Let your creativity flow onto the page. Have Fun and Enjoy!
Parents - Please help your child legibly write their name. Use crayons or colored pencils. Please NO GLITTER. Submissions must be received by March 24th, 2025. Mail entries to: GreatLander, 3110 Spenard Road, Anchorage, AK 99503 Space permitting, submissions of this coloring page will be shown in the May 2025 GreatLander.
