Scammon Bay

At the edge of the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta, the Kun River flows past the Askinuk Mountains to Scammon Bay and the Bering Sea. The Yup'ik people of this coast were known as the Asquinurmiut, with villages north and west of the river mouth. Their seasonal journeys took them to coastal camps for sea mammals, river mouths for summer fishing, and the tundra's lakes and ponds when winter ice made fishing possible there.