Tongfamily Website

Here are some links for things that happened in Alaska around 1987, Barrow Alaska and whaling there:

• Bowheads in Alaska. A note about Bowheads

  What happened around 1987:

• Exxon Valdez. Crashed into Bligh Reef 11M gallons. March 24, 1989.

• Wikipedia 1986. It’s hard to access Encyclopedias or other things, this wiki is pretty good though.
• Whaling History. The history of commercial whaling
• Bowhead Whaling History. Story of how Alaskan Bowheads were conserved.
• Technology of whaling and global history. Includes the invention of the bomb lance, shoulder guns, etc.
• Bowhead Protection Status. Bowheads were protected in 1938. Commercial whaling began in 1600s, First People have whaled for thousands of years.
• Snowmobile Inventor. Bombardier invented it in 1937.
• Barrow History. Recent history in short form
• Inupiat History. More depth on the history of Barrow and the Inupiat

• Alaska History. A larger chronology.