J.P. Myers 1975 Journal Cape Prince of Wales, Seward Peninsula, Alaska 25 July - a "flight of opportunity" to Wales today - Russell (Greenberg an) d accompanied Dick Hymen of the Polar Research Laboratory to Wales in the R4D. Left ~1030 am; arrived at Wales shortly before 2. The flight was smooth but cloudy until the Brooks Range north of Kotzebue. The minia along the direct route from Barrow to Kotzebue were more rugged that those we'd seen on previous flights to this area (Thompson + Lisburne). But the most significant finding for us along that part of the route were spruce forests - square mile of them - in the lowlands N of Kotzebue. Kotzebue bay was largely muddy from silt, and scattered with gill nets and fishing boats. The Seward Peninsula along its W/W show that part Shismaref to Wales was low coastal tundra - in some places extensively polygonated. Surf. Grey whales, many gulls. Whether because of the tidal stage we don't know, but there were very few extensive areas of muddy looking habitat along here - much less than one seen between Lisburne and Barrow. Finally, to the W we saw the Siberian cliffs and the Diomede Islands. A mystical view should black cliffs in a blue white fog. The Siberian mainland jutted up prominently to the west of Diomede, particularly one large and long set of cliffs. Further to the S we could see more such formations. Unfortunately at the distance at which we were - 40 miles over the closest - details of the Siberian coast weren't apparent. (We had 2-5 hrs on the ground, although were originally told to expect only 1. It was still to short a time. The general layout is: ? manfa Bering straits ↑ South hill Wales airstrip beach line of dunes stream low tundra Thus, there is a quite portion of a high hill (mountain even) at the S end of town next with the ocean and a large expanse of low grassy, unpolygonated (largely) tundra. The beach has surf, and a set of dunes which in some places are 100m wide.