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Nelson Lagoon (Unangax̂: ''Niilsanam Alĝuudaa'') is a census-designated place (CDP) in Aleutians East Borough, Alaska, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 52. Nelson Lagoon was established around 1960 and is the youngest of all the Borough communities. It is the only Aleut settlement on the Bering Sea shore. The community is located on the northern coast of the Alaska Peninsula and sits on a narrow sand spit that separates the lagoon from the Bering Sea. Nelson Lagoon is situated in the middle of a rich and productive salmon fisheries area. The community's dock, boat ramp, harbormaster's office and warehouse were completed in the late 1990s. Nelson Lagoon has excellent docking facilities available as well as boat and gear storage. A state-owned 4,000-foot-long lighted gravel runway serves the community with regularly scheduled flights. == History == Historically, the location where Nelson Lagoon sits was used as a Aleut summer campsite during the fishing season. In 1882, the lagoon was named for Edward William Nelson, a naturalist and explorer who travelled the region between 1877 and 1920.〔 From 1906 until 1917, a salmon salting facility operated at the location, which was staffed mainly by Scandinavian fishermen.〔 These men married local women, and today most native people in Nelson Bay have partial Scandinavian ancestry. A permanent settlement was established in 1960. A school was built five years later, and the settlement was able to grow into a larger permanent community.〔 In 1985, an environmental impact statement by the Minerals Management Service of the United States Department of the Interior was released, producing an in-depth analysis of the Nelson Bay community and its cultural, demographic, religious, political and educational atmosphere as well as predictions for the future.〔 The statement wrote about a well-organized, tight-knit community. The study reported that the five-member Nelson Bay village council was formed in 1971, still consisted of all its original members, met often, and was competent and unified in its representation of the community.〔 Unlike in other villages, in Nelson Bay, politics were a familial affair; village councillors represented the three main families in the village.〔 The environmental impact statement wrote that culturally and economically, the village was much as it was at the time of its founding: small, relatively undeveloped and very isolated. It noted that the village's younger generations were reported to have developed the unique tendency of brothers of one family marrying sisters of another family, thus creating a necessity for future generations to find spouses in other communities.〔 The Russian Orthodox Church was the village's dominant religion at the time, but secularization was taking place.〔 Education was highly valued in the Nelson Bay, and the 1985 environmental impact statement wrote that this could have been a legacy of the village's Scandinavian ancestors.〔 On 3 April 2015, Nelson Lagoon resident Elijah Ethan Johnson was killed after being ejected from his car while he was speeding down the Nelson Lagoon Airport airstrip. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nelson Lagoon, Alaska」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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