Nome

Nome , city (1990 pop. 3,500), W Alaska, on the southern side of Seward Peninsula, on Norton Sound; founded c.1898, when gold was discovered on the beach there. It is the commercial, government, and supply center for NW Alaska, with an airport. Major economic mainstays are mining, tourism, fishing, and government. The city is also a center of Eskimo handicrafts. Nome was a gold rush town from 1899 to 1903; it attracted some 20,000 prospectors, but many died or left because of the hardships. Dredging, which replaced older methods of mining, ceased in 1962, but was renewed in the 1980s. The city is the scene of an annual Midnight Sun Festival and is the terminus of the annual Iditarod dogsled race. Cape Nome lies to the southeast.

Nome a city in western Alaska, on the south coast of the Seward Peninsula. Founded in 1896 as a gold-mining camp, it became a centre of the Alaskan gold rush at the turn of the century.

Nome, Canada, USA USA (Alaska): following the discovery of gold in 1898 the miners' settlement was named Anvil City. It was later renamed Nome after Cape Nome. This is said to have acquired its name after a British Admiralty official had misread a naval chart of 1849 which had ‘?Name’ for the place.