The population of about 650 are mostly subsistence hunters. The entire village is littered with whale bones. Which make up most of the headstones and fencing at the local cemetery where this picture was taken during a large topo survey for a realignment of the existing airstrip.
It was 30 miles south of this location where in 1958 the Atomic Energy Commision with their Project Chariot wanted to chain 5 thermonuclear devices together to blast a channel and a harbor out of an area of the coast. The people of Pt. Hope understandably had a problem with the concept of this construction project and were able to force a freeze on the explosions.
A short video of the project can be found at http://www.vimeo.com/145750465
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