Curious

Rating: Null/10 (7 July 2007)

The movie "Insomnia" uses the town of "Nightmute", Alaska for the setting and it also has a neighboring town of "Umkumute", Alaska. I understand that Nightmute could just be the screen writer taking a map of Alaska and calling the town Nightmute. The interesting part is the town of Umkumute. It is not on any map of Alaska and has never been a permanent town. I used to live in Nightmute and the people used to go in the spring time to hunt seal in Umkumute. How did they come up with the name of Unkumute for the neighboring town? I found this very interesting. Maybe there are some old maps of Alaska that had the village of Unkumute on them. Because Umkumute, located on Nelson Island, is a temporary tent village and is only used in the spring and summer as a sealing camp for the people of Nightmute, it is hard for me to believe that it would be on any map of Alaska.