second half of the nineteenth century, the Bering Strait and Alaska, are the temporal and spatial frameworks in which the action is one of the great classics of adventure film, starring Gregory Peck, The world in his hands. Alaska belonged then to the Russian Tsarist Empire, which operated the burgeoning trade in skins of wild animals such as otters, seals, polar bears and foxes ártico.Lo truth is that the tsars were eager to shed its American possessions, keeping the western Bering Strait, and finally proceeded to sell the United States 1867.Es within this historical sketch where the plot unfolds in the film, suggesting that brought the goings merchants and politicians of different coat to seize territory that treasured enormous wealth, then unknown, as oil and gold deposits. At that time was trade, illegal trafficking of pileles which monopolized the interest in such remote and inhospitable tierra.Y were the skins elastic marine pinnipeds such as seals the most popular among gremio.Precisamente handlers, there were some tiny islands with steep cliffs, north of the Aleutians, where large concentrated populations of sea lions under the absence of loved humanos.El Boston man wanted to enrich coast humane killing of several thousand copies merfolk, inhabitants of the Pribilof . So many had to the Pribilof became known as the islands seals.
Today the islands of St. George and St. Paul just have a skinny human colony close to 700 people engaged in farm operation halibut and crab fishing glacial Arctic, after the promulgation of an edict in 1966 banning the hunting of seals infamous descendants of those who came under fire or the hook of many men who came from Boston and elsewhere in America and Asia.Descansen in peace now can. Greetings.
