Shaktoolik (Inupiaq: Saktuliq, IPA: [sɑktuleq]; Central Yupik: Cagtuleq) is a city in Nome Census Area, Alaska, United States.
Shaktoolik is one of a number of Alaskan communities threatened by erosion and related global warming effects.
of Community and Economic Development, Shaktoolik was the first and southernmost Malemiut settlement on Norton Sound, occupied as early as 1839.
Twelve miles northwest, on Cape Denbigh, is the Iyatayet site that is 6,000 to 8,000 years old, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Shaktoolik was first mapped in 1842–1844 by Lt. Lavrenty Zagoskin, Imperial Russian Navy, who called it "Tshaktogmyut."
This site was prone to severe storms and winds, however, and the village relocated to its present, more sheltered location in 1967.
[5] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.1 square miles (2.8 km2), all of it land.
According to the State of Alaska, Department of Community and Economic Development, Shaktoolik is located on the east shore of Norton Sound.
Shaktoolik has a subarctic climate with maritime influences when Norton Sound is ice-free, usually from May to October.
Fish, crab, moose, beluga whale, caribou, seal, rabbit, geese, cranes, ducks, ptarmigan (including their eggs), berries, greens, and roots are also primary subsistence food sources.
All the students involved in sports form a team, which travels around the Bering Strait School District (BSSD)