by Tom Rose
Finally, to Mom and Dad, nothing could begin to describe my deep appreciation and love for you both. All I can say is, “Thanks.”
TRIBUTE
What kind of a person would put up with me day and night for eight straight months, never issue a complaint—well, hardly ever issue a complaint—and be even more a joy to work with at the project’s end than he was at the beginning? Michael Richardson, that’s who.
Fortunately, I never understood how much work was involved in writing a book. If I did, it would never have happened.
To Michael Richardson, a man of high honor, integrity, and decency, if not ribald humor, you have my deepest thanks, and heartfelt best wishes.
Index
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ABC
Nightline
World News This Morning
World News Tonight
Adams, Billy
Admiral Makarov (icebreaker)
Ahmaogak, George
Ahmaogak, Roy
Air Force, U.S.
screw tractor
weather satellite
airlifts of whales
Airport Inn (Barrow)
Alascom (company)
Alaska. See also specific locations e.g. Barrow (Alaska)
acquisition from Russia
commercial fishing industry
cost of living
described
outsiders
state taxes
Alaska Distributors
Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission (AEWC)
Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN)
Alaska (Michener)
Alaska National Guard. See National Guard, Alaskan
Alaska National Petroleum Reserve
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA)
Albert, Tom
Aldi Supermarkets
Aldrin, Edwin Buzz
Aleutian Islands
Allen, Billy Bob. See also VECO, Inc.
arrives in Barrow
returns to Barrow
Amoco
amphipods
Anchorage (Alaska)
Coast Guard in
Department of Wildlife Management in
George Parks Highway
Anchorage Daily News
Anchorage International Airport
Anderson, Terry
Andreeva, Svetlana
A&P
Archimedean Screw Tractor
Arctic Challenger (icebreaker)
Arctic Circle
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)
Armstrong, Neil
Army Corps of Engineers
Ásgrímsson, Halldór
Associated Press (AP)
Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO)
Aurora I satellite
Austin American Statesman
Australia
Baja, California
Baker, Chuck
Baker, James A. III
banking collapse of 2008
Barrow, John
Barrow (Alaska)
Airport Inn (Barrow)
alcohol in
and Cold War
cost of living
described
Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line) radar station
income per capita
Mayor’s Jobs Program
modernization of
North Slope Mayor’s Conference
oil industry
origins of name
outsiders
Pepe’s North of the Border
prohibition
Sam & Lee’s Chinese restaurant
self-reliance
as “Top of the World”
Top of the World Hotel
water shortage
whaling captains’ meeting
Wiley Post-Will Rogers Memorial Airport
winter months in
Barrow High School
BBC
bears. See polar bears (Nanook)
Beaufort Sea
Beechey, Frederick
Beluga whales
Benson, Ed
Benson, Rod
Bering Sea
Berliner, Jeff
biofuel
bird-jamming
blue whales
Bone (baby whale)
Boston Globe
bowhead whales
Brange, Jim
Bristol Bay
British, Petroleum (BP), Deepwater Horizon blowout (2010)
Broadcast News (movie)
Brokaw, Tom
Brooks Mountain Range
Brower, Arnold, Jr.
Brower, Charlie
Brower, Johnny
Browerville (Barrow)
Bruce, Kevin
Burslem, Ken
Burton, Kent
Bush, George H. W.
California gray whales
breathing holes
breathing system of
cooperation of
death by drowning
death of Bone (baby whale)
development of story
Exxon Valdez oil spill and
first filming of
first reports of stranding
harvesting discussions
and Malik (whaling captain)
migration patterns
moves toward freedom
naming
population in 1988
Canada
icebreakers
in World War II
Captain Cook Hotel (Anchorage)
Caras, Roger
caribou
Carroll, Geoff
deicers and
at Department of Wildlife Management
first reports of whale stranding
Cindy Lowry of Greenpeace and
Whales’ final move toward freedom
Carroll, Marie
Carroll, Tom
alternative options to free whales
arrives in Barrow
described
hoverbarge operation
ice bullet and
Bonnie Mersinger and
Ronald Reagan and
rumors of Soviet involvement and
screw tractor
Carson, Johnny
cartoons
Caterpillar tractors
Caudle, Oran
daily routine
described
filming of stranded whales
management of outside media
CBS
chainsaws. See also hole cutting
Channel 20 (Barrow)
C-130 Hercules cargo plan
Chilingarov, Arthur
Chittick, Harry
Christianity
Chugach Mountains
Chukchi Sea
Churchill, Winston
CNN
coal
Coast Guard, U.S.
Cold War
commercial fishing industry
Comstock, Earl
ConocoPhillips
Control Data Corporation
corn farming
Cousins, Gregory
Cowper, Steve
Crosby, Randy
Crouse, Pearl
Crowley Maritime Corporation
Daily Telegraph
Davis, Jason
Deepwater Horizon blowout (2010)
deicers
Department of Commerce, U.S.
Department of the Interior, U.S.
Mineral Management Service (MMS)
Dickens, Charles
Distant Early Warning (DEW Line)
dogs
Duberstein, Kenneth
Dukakis, Michael
Dunn, Bob
Dunnegan, Pete
economic terrorism
Eisenstein, Sergei
Elson, Thomas
Elson Lagoon
Endangered Species Act (1973)
environmentalists. See also Greenpeace International
oil industry and
wealth effect and
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Eskimo butter
Eskimos
and alcohol
diseases from outsiders
as hibernators
ice hole cutting
Inupiat
media myth
oil industry and
“pure”
sled/ski ride market
subsistence hunting
subsistence whaling
weather conditions and
whale worship
Eskimo Scouts
ethanol
Evans, William
Exxon
Exxon Valdez spill in Prince William Sound (1989)
Eyewitness News
Fadlallah, Sayyed Hussein
Fairbanks (Alaska)
Fauske, Dan
Ferrian, Greg
Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S.
Fitzgerald, Brian
Fitzwater, Marlin
freeing of whales
Friedman, Sonya
Gallagher, Susan
George, Craig
deicers and
at Department of Wildlife Management
first reports of whale stranding
Cindy Lowry of Greenpeace and
Whales’ final move toward freedom
Germany. See West Germany
Good Morning America
Gorbachev, Mikhail
graphite harpoons
Gray, Bruce
Gray whales. See California gray whales
great white sharks
green energies
Greenpeace International. See also Lowry, Cindy; Plowden, Campbell
ARCO and
coalition with VECO, Inc.
commercial whaling and
gray whales of Barrow and
origins of
Soviet icebreakers and
whaling and
Green River Formation
Gulf of Mexico
Gunnarsson, Arni
Gusoff, Carolyn
gyrostabilizers
Haller, Mike
Hammer, Armand
Hannibalsson, Jón Baldvin
Hansen, Jerry
Harding, Warren G.
Harvey, Jim
Hasquet, Julie
Hazelwood, Joe
helicopters
ice bullet
news media use of
Sikorsky CH-54 Skycranes
Hermannsson, Steingrimur
Hezbollah
Higgins, Rich
Hitler, Adolf
Hodel, Donald
hole cutting
deicers
Eskimo chainsaws and axes
Husqvarna chainsaws
ice bullet
portable water jet pumps
screw tractor
Hollis, Dudley
horizontal drilling
hoverbarge
Hufford, Gary
humpback whales
Hunter, Holly
Hurt, William
hydraulic fracturing
hydrometeorology
icebreakers. See also hole cutting; hoverbarge; specific icebreakers
Coast Guard
Soviet
ice bullet
Iceland
boycott by West Germany
whaling industry
Industrial Revolution
intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)
intermarriage
International Union for Conservation of Nature
Polar Bear Specialist Group
International Whaling Commission (IWC)
moratorium on commercial whaling
quota system
interspecies communication
Inuits. See Eskimos
Inupiat Eskimos
Itta, Brenda
IWC. See International Whaling Commission (IWC)
“Jane Whale” (pseudonym)
Japan
attack on Pearl Harbor
NTV
reaction to “Operation Breakout”
whale products
whaling industry
Jennings, Peter
journalists. See specific reporters, stations, networks, and publications
Kahanamoku, Duke
Kasco Marine deicers
Kawamura, Masu
KBRW-AM
kickers
killer whales
King, Marvin
KING-TV (Seattle)
Koppel, Ted
KSTP-TV (Minneapolis)
KTUU-TV (Anchorage)
KTVF-TV (Fairbanks)
Kuparuk
Laurence, Charles
leads
Leathard, Pete
Lebanon
Lefevre, Greg
Lenin, Vladimir
Lewellen, Bob
liberation of whales
live shots
looping
Lowry, Cindy
and Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission (AEWC) meeting
arrives in Barrow
death of Bone (baby whale)
Department of Wildlife Management and
described
at hearing for Bristol Bay
hoverbarge operation
rumors of Soviet involvement
VECO, Inc. and
whales move toward freedom
whales of Barrow and
whales of Turnagain Arm and
Mackey, Dick
Malik (whaling captain)
as Great Whaler
and stranded whales
Marine Mammal Protection Act (1972)
MarkAir
Mars space probe
Matumeak, Warren
McClure, Jessica
McTaggart, David
Mersinger, Bonnie
Michener, James
Miller, Ben
Mississippi River system
Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co.
Mongeau, Steve
Morozov, Pavel
Morris, Ron
anger toward Eskimos
brainstorming session
deicers and
ice bullet and
as NOAA coordinator of whale rescue
rumors of Soviet involvement
screw tractor and
Soviet icebreakers and
whales’ final move toward freedom
Mukluk Island
mukluks (sealskin boots)
muktuk (whale blubber)
Napoli, Mendes
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
National Guard, Alaskan
alternative options
hoverbarge and
ice bullet
screw tractor
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
National Marine Mammal Laboratory (Seattle)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
National Ocean Service
National Weather Service
Naval Arctic Research Laboratory (NARL)
Nazis
NBC
NBC Nightly News
Negroponte, John
Network Nine (Australia)
Network Ten (Australia)
news cycle
New York Times
Nightline
NOAA-11 (weather satellite)
Nollman, Jim
NordSea
Northern Pole 31 floating research station
North Slope Borough (NSB)
financial health of
Search and Rescue Department
television studio. See also Caudle, Oran
water rationing
Wildlife Management Office
North Slope Mayor’s Conference
Northwest Passage
Norway, whaling industry in
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Nuiqsut (Alaska)
N.Y. News Corp.
Obama, Barack
Occidental Petroleum Company
O’Connor, Frank
Odom, Ben
Office of Cabinet Affairs (OCA)
offshore drilling
oil
in Barrow, Alaska
environmentalists and
Eskimos and
offshore drilling
Oliver, Don
Omark Industries
Operation Breakout
cost of
final day
freeing of whales
Operation Breakthrough
outsiders
Palsson, Thorsteinn
parkee
Patsevich, Alexander
Pauley, Jane
PBS
People magazine
Pepe’s North of the Border (Barrow)
permafrost
Petersen, Sigmund
phosphorus burning
Plowden, Campbell
Point Barrow
described
first reports of straggler whales
journalists’ final trip to
naming of Barrow, Alaska
route to stranded whales
whale hunting off
polar bears (Nanook)
Polar ice pack
Polar Sea (icebreaker)
Polar Star (icebreaker)
political cartoons
pollution
portable water jet pumps
Post, Wiley
Pottinger, Todd
Poutu (middle whale)
press. See specific reporters, stations, networks, and publications
pressure ridges
Prince William Sound
earthquake (1964)
oil spill (1989)
Prudhoe Bay
Quarles, Gary
radar
radio transmitters
Ramseur, David
Raspberry, William
Rather, Dan
Reagan, Ronald
reporters. See specific reporters, stations, networks, and publications
Reshetov, Sergei
Richardson, Michael
Richmond Times Dispatch
Rockefeller, John
Rogers, Ed
Rogers, Will
Rolligon (truck)
Rural Alaska Television Network (RATNET)
Russia, acquisition of Alaska from. See also Soviet Union
Rutledge, Glenn
Sam & Lee’s Chinese restaurant (Barrow)
Sargent, Bob
Sasso, John
satellite transmission
Schaeffer, John
Scott, Willard
screw tractor
Scully, Tucker
seal oil
seasonal affective disorder
Sea World (San Diego)
seismic technologies
Shell Oil
Shepard, Gary
Shim, Steve
shore ice
Shultz, George P.
Siku (largest whale)
Skluzacek, Rick
sled dogs
Smith, Adam
solar power
sound-bites
Soviet Union
collapse of
Embassy in Washington, D.C.
Greenpeace International and