Mystery meat of 1951: Did the exclusive Explorers Club in New York eat frozen woolly mammoth meat from the Aleutians? Alaska historian David Reamer writes that at best, the story was promotion gone awry. At worst, it was a simple hoax.
This illustration shows four female woolly mammoths in their herd. Fossil records indicate herds consisted of adult females and young calves. When males reached adulthood, they left the herd. on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of this story.
Also on the menu were massive crab legs from Japanese spider crabs, bison burgers, ice cream and cheese straws. The decorations included a “bit of the Alaskan-Aleutian tundra, with grass, weeds, shore debris and shrubs ... sprinkled over all was volcanic dust from the great Veniaminof Volcano.” Per the newspaper, Explorers Club member Father Bernard Hubbard obtained the mammoth, still frozen, from “Woolly Cave” on Akutan Island.
The last mammoths lived in Arctic areas near or in what is now Alaska. Separated from the mainland by rising sea levels, some mammoths survived on Russia’s Wrangel Island until just 4,000 years ago. A herd of mammoths on Alaska’s St. Paul Island died off around 5,600 years ago. To put that fact in perspective, woolly mammoths were alive when the Great Pyramid of Giza was built in Egypt.
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