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Adak Island
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Adugak Island
Adugak Island (also spelled Adougakh, possibly from Aleut Adudak) is a small island in the Fox Islands group in the Aleutian Islands of southwestern Alaska. It is about long and is located off the northwest coast of Umnak Island. The island has been protected as a rookery for the endangered steller sea lion, which has been observed during the winter feeding on the fish that inhabit the water nearby. The island reaches an elevation of about above sea level and the area around the island is extremely hazardous to ships because of the numerous rocks that lie just below the surface of the water.
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Agattu
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Aiktak Island
Aiktak Island (Ugangax in Aleut) is one of the Krenitzin Islands, a subgroup of the Fox Islands in the eastern Aleutian Islands in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is 1.3 miles (2.1 km) long and is located 38 miles (61 km) east of Akutan Island. Aiktak is an Aleut name transcribed by Captain Tebenkov in 1852 as "Ostrov Aikhtak." R. H. Geoghegan suggested that the name is derived from the Aleut "aikhag", meaning "travel or going on a voyage."
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Akun Island
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Aleutian Islands
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Amak Island
Amak Island (Amax in Aleut) is an uninhabited island in Aleutians East Borough, Alaska, USA. The island lies north of the western tip of the Alaska Peninsula, and northwest of the mainland city of Cold Bay. The island's land area is and its maximum elevation is . The island's volcano, Mount Amak, last erupted in 1796.
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Amaknak Island
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Amatignak Island
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Amlia
Amlia (Amlax in Aleut) is an island in the Aleutian Islands. It is located near the eastern end of the Andreanof Islands and is situated between Atka Island and Seguam Island.
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Amukta
Amukta is a small yet high island in the Islands of Four Mountains group lying between the Fox Islands and the Andreanof Islands in the Aleutian Islands. The nearest islands to it are Yunaska and Seguam Island; it is separated from Seguam Island by Amukta Pass. The small island of Chagulak lies directly northeast of it. The island reaches a total height of .
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Andreanof Islands
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Arakamchechen Island
Arakamchechen Island is an island in the Bering Sea. It lies north of Cape Chaplino, close to the coast of Chukotka. It is separated from the continental shore by an 8 km wide sound. This island is inhabited; the main settlement is Yanrakynnot village.
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Atka Island
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Avatanak Island
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Aziak Island
Aziak Island (also called Azki, Azlak, Azyak, Azik, and Azaik) is a small island in the Andreanof Islands group in the Aleutian Islands of southwestern Alaska. The name "Aziak" is derived from the Aleut word ha-azax - "ten," and in many books and charts published before 1920, it was often used to refer to Sledge Island, located to the northeast off the Seward Peninsula, or to a native settlement on that island. This practice apparently became rarer as the twentieth century progressed and today Aziak is used almost exclusively to refer the Andreanof-group island. Aziak Island is approximately long and reaches a maximum elevation of . Very little is known about the island and it is uninhabited.
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Baby Islands
The Baby Islands are a group of small islands located about northeast of Unalga Island in the Fox Islands group of the Aleutian Islands of southwestern Alaska. The group consists of five islands ranging from 980 to 3280 feet (300 to 1000 m) long and several smaller islets. The islands are uninhabited and none of them rise more than a few metres above sea level. Large numbers of birds, notably the whiskered auklet, nest on the islands, making them a frequent stop for nature tours in the area (the group is located only from Dutch Harbor on Unalaska Island). However, the ocean near the islands is extremely hazardous for ships because of the shallow water and numerous rocks that lie just below water's surface.
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Bering Sea
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Besboro Island
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Bobrof Island
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Carlisle Island
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Chagulak Island
Chagulak Island (also spelled Chugul, Chugula, Chegoula, or Tchougoulok) is a small, uninhabited volcanic island in the Islands of Four Mountains group in the Aleutian Islands of southwestern Alaska, United States. The -wide island consists of a single cone that reaches an elevation of 3,747 ft (1,142 m). Chagulak is a stratovolcano and is separated from the nearby Amukta Island by a channel about wide; though the two islands are joined underwater. No eruptions have been recorded and very little is known about the volcano.
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Chuginadak Island
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Chugul Island
Chugul is a small island located in the centre of the Andreanof Islands of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. It is one a group of small islands that are situated between Adak Island and Atka Island. Nearby islands include Igitkin and Tagalak.
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Commander Islands
Commander Islands or Komandorski Islands (, Komandorskiye ostrova) are a group of treeless Russian islands located east of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, in the Bering Sea. The islands consist of Bering Island ( by ), Medny Island ( by ), and fifteen smaller ones (islets and rocks), the largest of which are Kamen Toporkov (Puffin Rock, ) (sometimes referred to as Ostrov Toporkov) and Kamen Ariy Island, which are between and west of the only settlement, Nikolskoye. Administratively, they compose Aleutsky District of Kamchatka Krai.
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Derbin Island
Derbin Island is located in the Krenitzin Islands, a subgroup of the Fox Islands in the eastern Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Derbin is a small island (at 0.5 mi across) and is situated near the southwestern shore of Tigalda Island. It was named in 1935 by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey because of its proximity to Derbin Strait, the channel between Avatanak and Tigalda islands. Derbin Strait, in turn, is derived from "Derbenskoy," the Russian name published by Father Veniaminov (1840).
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Egg Island (Alaska)
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Fox Islands (Alaska)
The Fox Islands are a group of islands in the eastern Aleutian Islands of the U.S. state of Alaska. The Fox Islands are the closest to mainland North America in the Aleutian chain, and just east of Samalga Pass and the Islands of Four Mountains group.
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Gareloi Island
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Great Sitkin Island
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Hagemeister Island
Hagemeister Island is an island in the U.S. state of Alaska, located on the north shore of Bristol Bay at the entrance to Togiak Bay.
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Hall Island (Alaska)
Hall Island is a small island located to the northwest of St. Matthew Island in the Bering Sea in Alaska, USA. It serves as a haulout site for Pacific walrus. It is in length and has a land area of . The highest point is . Hall Island is uninhabited. It is part of the Bering Sea unit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. It is one of three hall islands.
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Herbert Island
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Igitkin Island
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Ilak Island
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Kagalaska Island
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Kagamil Island
Kagamil Island (Qagaamila in Aleut), the most northernly island of the Islands of Four Mountains subgroup of the Aleutian archipelago, is north of Chuginadak Island and south of Uliaga Island. It is in length and up to in width. The southern half of the island is dominated by the Kagamil Volcano, which has two summits: one is above sea level, while the other is lower at .
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Kamchatka Krai
Kamchatka Krai () is a federal subject of Russia. It is a krai formed July 1, 2007 as a result of the merger of Kamchatka Oblast and Koryak Autonomous Okrug, after a referendum held on the issue on October 23, 2005. The administrative centre is the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The okrug retains the status of a special administrative division of the krai under the name of Koryak Okrug.
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Kamchatka Peninsula
The Kamchatka Peninsula (, poluostrov Kamchatka) is a 1,250-kilometer long peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of . It lies between the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Sea of Okhotsk to the west. Immediately offshore along the Pacific coast of the peninsula runs the deep Kuril-Kamchatka Trench.
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Kanaga Island
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Karaginsky Gulf
Karaginsky Gulf () is a large gulf in the Bering Sea off the northeastern coast of Kamchatka (Russia), which cuts 117 km deep inland. The depth of the gulf is between 30 to 60 m. The largest island in the gulf is the Karaginsky Island, separated from the mainland by the Litke Strait (width: 21 to 72 km). The Karaginsky Gulf is covered with ice from December til June.
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Karaginsky Island
Karaginsky Island or Karaginskiy Island () is an island in the Karaginsky Gulf of the Bering Sea. The 40 km wide strait between the Kamchatka Peninsula and this island is called Litke Strait.
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Khvostof Island
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Koniuji Island
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Litke Strait
Litke Strait (, Proliv Litke) is a strait in the Bering Sea off the northeastern coast of Kamchatka, Russia, which separates the Karaginsky Island from the mainland. It is named after explorer Fyodor Petrovich Litke.
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Little Sitkin Island
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Little Tanaga Island
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Medny Island
Medny Island (also spelled Mednyy, , sometimes called Copper Island in English), is the second largest island (after Bering Island) in the Komandorski Islands east of Russia. (The other islands are much smaller.)
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Nunivak Island
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Oglodak Island
Oglodak Island is an island in the US State of Alaska. It is located in the Aleutians West Census Area, which encompasses most of the Aleutian Island chain. The island is currently uninhabited and has an area of roughly one and a half square mile.
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Pancake Rock
Pancake Rock is an island in the Fox Islands group in the eastern Aleutian Islands, Alaska. It is approximately across and is located about off the west coast of Umnak Island.
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Poa Island
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Pribilof Islands
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Punuk Islands
The Punuk Islands are a chain of three small islets in the Bering Sea off the eastern end of St. Lawrence Island. They are located 8.5 km to the southeast of Cape Apavawook and 18 km to the southwest of Niyghapak Point.
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Rat Island, Alaska
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Rootok Island
Rootok Island (also called Aektok, Aiaktak, Ouektock, Aiaiepta, Veniaminof, or Goloi (alt: Goly; "bare") is the smallest member of the Krenitzin Islands, a subgroup of the Fox Islands in the eastern Aleutian Islands in Alaska, United States. The island's common spelling of Rooktok appears to have arisen from Aektok. Deviations in compass readings of up to 3 degrees from normal have been observed off the island's north-western side. The island was set aside to house a lighthouse on January 4, 1901; though no navigation aids were ever constructed. The island is uninhabited.
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Russian Federation
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Sagchudak Island
Sagchudak Island (also spelled Sagtchudakh) is a small island in the Andreanof Islands group in the Aleutian Islands of southwestern Alaska. The roughly rectangular island is approximately long and 0.6 mi (1 km) wide and lies about off the southern coast of Atka Island. The island's current name is nearly identical to the native Aleut name for the island and it entered navigational charts by the early 1850s. In the 1900s and 1910s, the island was one of many Aleutian islands stocked with foxes by the United States government for hunting and fur trading purposes. Although the foxes on uninhabited Sagchudak were not directly hunted, some were occasionally trapped and moved to and from the island to help ensure genetic stability in the various separated colonies.
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Samalga Island
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Sanak Islands
The Sanak Islands are a group of islands in the Gulf of Alaska. They are part of Aleutians East Borough in the state of Alaska, USA. Caton Island and Sanak Island are the largest islands in the group which consists of small islets which are all clustered around Sanak Island.
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Sedanka Island
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Sledge Island
Sledge Island, or Ayak Island, is a small island in the Bering Sea. It is located from the southwestern shore of the Seward Peninsula, off the shores of Alaska.
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St. Lawrence Island
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Tagalak Island
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Tanaga Island
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Tigalda Island
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Ugamak Island
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Ulak Island
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Uliaga Island
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Umak Island
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Umnak
Umnak (Unmax in Aleut) is one of the Fox Islands of the Aleutian Islands. With of land area, it is the third largest island in the Aleutian archipelago and the 19th largest island in the United States. The island is home to a large volcanic caldera on Mount Okmok and is separated from Unalaska Island by Umnak Pass.
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Unalga Island
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Walrus Islands
The Walrus Islands () are a group of craggy coastal islands in the Bering Sea, close to the northern shores of Bristol Bay, Alaska at the entrance to Togiak Bay. They are located 18 km to the east of Hagemeister Island.
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Wislow Island
Wislow Island is an island in the Fox Islands group of the eastern Aleutian Islands in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is across and situated in Reese Bay midway between Capes Wislow and Cheerful on the north coast of Unalaska Island, 11.3 miles (18.2 km) northwest of Dutch Harbor. It was named in 1888 by the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries.
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Yttygran Island
Yttygran Island is an island in the Bering Sea 24 km northwest of Cape Chaplino, close to the coast of Chukotka. It is located 3.8 km to the south of Arakamchechen Island and is separated from the continental shore by a sound that is only 1.5 km in its narrowest point.
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Yunaska Island
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Karaginsky
Native name: Карагинский остров
Location of Karaginsky Island off the eastern Kamchatka coast
Karaginsky Island (Russia)
Geography
Location	Karaginsky Gulf of the Bering Sea
Coordinates	58°55′N 164°20′E / 58.917°N 164.333°E / 58.917; 164.333
Area	2,404 km² (928.2 sq mi)
Length	101 km (62.8 mi)
Width	27 km (16.8 mi)
Highest elevation	912 m (2,992 ft)
Highest point	Gora Sakonoval'
Country
Russia
Okrug	Koryak Autonomous Okrug
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Karaginsky Island or Karaginskiy Island (Russian: Карагинский остров) is an island in the Karaginsky Gulf of the Bering Sea. The 40 km wide strait between the Kamchatka Peninsula and this island is called Litke Strait.

Even though the island is uninhabited, the Karagin Koryaks have traditionally lived in Karaginskiy Island. Migrant reindeer herders still live in temporary shelters on the island.

The island's area is 2,404 km². It is 101 km long and up to 27 km wide. The highest peak of the island is 912 m. Karaginsky Island is covered with tundra vegetation and cedar underwood. In the summer there are many flowers.

Karaginsky Island is a Ramsar site.

Nowadays this island is popular with tourists who come to enjoy the wildlife.^[1]

45 km north of Karaginsky Island's northern tip lies small and narrow Verkhoturov Island (Ostrov Verkhoturova). It is 3.5 km long and has an average width of 0.5 km.

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Administratively Karaginskiy Island belongs to the Kamchatka Krai of the Russian Federation.

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Coordinates: 58°55′N 164°20′E / 58.917°N 164.333°E / 58.917; 164.333

v t e Islands in the Bering Sea

Adak Adugak Agattu Aiktak Akun Akutan Amak Amaknak Amatignak Amchitka Amlia Amukta Anangula Ananiuliak Arakamchechen Atka Attu Avatanak Aziak Bering Besboro Bobrof Bogoslof Buldir Carlisle Chagulak Chuginadak Chugul Derbin Egg Gareloi Great Sitkin Hagemeister Hall Herbert Igitkin Ilak Kagalaska Kagamil Kanaga Karaginsky Kasatochi Khvostof King Kiska Koniuji Kritskoi Little Sitkin Little Tanaga Medny Nelson Nunivak Oglodak Otter Pancake Rock Poa Rat Rootok Sagchudak Samalga Sanak Sea Lion Rock Sea Otter Rocks Sedanka Seguam Segula Semisopochnoi Shemya Sledge St. Lawrence St. Matthew St. Michael St. Paul Stuart Tagalak Tanaga Tigalda Ugamak Ulak Uliaga Umak Umnak Unalaska Unalga Unimak Walrus Walrus (Pribilof) Wislow Yttygran Yunaska

Island groups Aleutian Andreanof Baby Commander Delarof Diomede Fox Four Mountains Krenitzin Kudobin Near Islands Pribilof Punuk Islands Rat Islands Sanak Islands Seal Walrus Walrus and Kritskoi

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