No one knows the 30-mile long, three-mile wide island better than Klein, my friend and neighbor who first visited St. Matthew in 1957, before Alaska was a state. He hiked the length of the island ...

The only way to reach Kenai Fjords Wilderness Lodge is by boat. On calm June mornings, the half-hour trip from Seward crosses ...

The most remote spots appeared as tiny wedges in northwest and northeast Alaska. Other lonely spots were a few Aleutian islands and St. Matthew Island in the Bering Sea.

St. Matthew Island is said to be the most remote place in Alaska. Marooned in the Bering Sea halfway to Siberia, it is well over 300 kilometers and a 24-hour ship ride from the nearest human ...

St. Matthew is a sliver of an island that sits in the Bering Sea nearly 200 miles from any human settlement. It's been described as the most remote place in Alaska.

The Siberian Yupik town of Gambell, Alaska, sits on the western edge of St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than the Alaska mainland and two plane rides from Anchorage.

If you love traveling to remote locations, this small Alaskan island town located on a volcanic rock and surrounded by wilderness should be next on your list.

Captains with the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge will ferry us on the refuge's ship the Tiglax to St. Matthew from the island of St. Paul, about 225 miles and 24 hours away. Rarely visited ...