Sevuokuk Point

At the northwestern end of St. Lawrence Island, the old Yupik settlement of Sivuqaq looks across the Bering Sea toward the coast of Siberia. Island families hunted walrus and whales and maintained ties with communities on the Chukchi Peninsula through trade and marriage. The island itself was known to its inhabitants as Sivuqaq; in 1728 Vitus Bering encountered it on St. Lawrence's Day and gave it the saint's name.