Cruise ship nearly doubles Unalaska’s population (for a day)

Unalaska’s tallest building? KUCB/John Ryan photo.
The biggest cruise ship ever to visit the Aleutian Islands pulled into Unalaska’s Dutch Harbor Tuesday morning. The floating city known as the Celebrity Millennium disgorged about 2,500 passengers and 1,000 crew. In tandem with nearly 300 passengers in town from the much smaller Le Boreal, the two cruise ships nearly doubled the population of Unalaska for the day.
For many towns in southern Alaska, the arrival of a mega cruise ship w