Wales, Alaska
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Wales is a city in the Nome Census Area, Alaska, United States. As of the 2020 census, Wales had a population of 168. It is the westernmost city on the North American mainland, although Adak, located
View of the Wales Site, with the city of Wales in the background
Summer in Wales, 1940s
Wales in Winter, 1940s
Nome, Alaska
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Nome is a city in the Nome Census Area in the Unorganized Borough of the US state of Alaska. The city is located on the southern Seward Peninsula coast on the Norton Sound of the Bering Sea. It had a
Wales, Alaska
…although Adak, located on Adak Island, is the westernmost city in Alaska. Wales Airport serves Wales with flights on Bering Air and Ravn Alaska to Nome. A burial mound from the Birnirk culture (500 to 900 AD) was discovered near Wales and is now a National Historic Landmark…
Steadman Street in Nome, looking north from King Place, in May 2002
Gold Pan, Anvil City Square
An aerial view of Nome, Alaska, July 2006
Inuit music and dance near Nome, 1900