Radars have found the last Tlingit fort in Alaska. They've been looking for him for over 100 years

It was possible to discover the old fort using geophysical visualization methods and ground research, and

also penetrating radar.According to geographers, it was not possible to find the exact position of the fort for more than 100 years, for which it received the name “elusive”. In fact, it was called Shiskinaw, which means “country fort,” on the Alaska Peninsula where the mouth of the Kasda Hin (Indian River) meets the Sitka Sound in Sitka National Historical Park.

"The exact physical location of the forteluded researchers for a century, ”said co-author Thomas Urban, a research fellow at Cornell University. "Previous archaeological excavations have found some clues, but no one could find convincing evidence linking these clues together."

To find Shiskinou, Urban created a network tousing electromagnetic induction to determine the potential outline of the fort, and then created a small network for dragging the GPR. Urban's modern instruments echo the unusual shape of the fort's perimeter.

“We believe that this study providedthe only conclusive evidence for the location of the fort, which is an important site in New World colonial history and an important cultural symbol of the Tlingit resistance to colonization, ”Urban said.

In 1799, Russia sent a small army toAlaska to develop the fur trade, but the Tlingits successfully drove them out in 1802. Waiting for the return of the Russians, the Tlingits built a wooden fort, Shiskinou, in two years. The Tlingit received their weapons and cannons from British-American merchants.

When the Russians returned in 1804, the Tlingitsheld them back for five days, but failed when gunpowder, delivered to the fort from a warehouse across the Sitka Strait, exploded in a canoe. The Tlingit clans fled the Shiskinou at night through Shi (Baran Island) to Chaatla Nou, and then the Russians established a trading post in what is now Sitka.

“A large-scale study was required toit is compelling to exclude alternative sites for this historically and culturally significant structure, ”said co-author Brynnen Carter of the National Park Service.

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