Unimak Island

Fishermen hundreds of miles from home wondered about this fish camp tucked between two reefs in a narrow pass between Alaska’s mainland and Unimak Island, surprised that a home could be found in a place so remote, with weather so wild.

Large floating ice chunks clogged the ocean passage between the tip of the mainland where we lived and Unimak Island, where the village of False Pass and the school were.

Shishaldin is near the center of Unimak Island, the largest island in the Aleutian chain.

Nearly 160 people were killed in Hawaii after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake was recorded near Unimak Island or Aleutian Trench in Alaska on April 1, 1946, according to the University of South California's Tsunami Research Group.

"Long before we reached Unimak Island, we knew we weren't going back," Mc Kittrick wrote.