Mount Ballyhoo

Mount Ballyhoo, a 1,650-foot summit on Amaknak Island above Unalaska Bay near Dutch Harbor, stands out for its steep rise from tidewater and its place in Alaska history. Jack London, who stayed at Dutch Harbor in 1897 on his way to the Klondike Gold Rush, named the peak after his lead dog and later used the area as a setting for The Sea-Wolf; Rex Beach also climbed it. During the Japanese attack on Dutch Harbor on June 3–4, 1942, American guns and munitions had been moved onto the mountain in advance. The Aleutian World War II National Historic Area there connects the site to a major wartime episode in Alaska.