Our thanks to Scott Hatch for these fantastic photos.  Scott is a supervisor/research biologist  for the USGS, Alaska Science Center in Anchorage, Alaska and has been working at Middleton Island since 1978 (annually since 1986).

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In this photo the ship "Coldbrook" looks like it is still in one piece....

29 years later, the back of the ship is gone and as a result of the earthquake it is now high and dry and some of the cliffs face has washed away.....

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It is hard to believe that this is the same place as the previous photo but it is....