Uganik Island is a physical feature (island) in Kodiak Island Borough.
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Feature Name: | Uganik Island |
Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
Feature Type: | Physical |
Class: | Island |
Description: | between Uganik and Vickoda Bays, on N coast of Kodiak I. |
History: | "Native name reported in 1805 by Lisianski (1814, p. 169) as ""Oohanick Island."" Baker (1906, p. 647) wrote a transliteration of the Russian ""O(strov) Uganik,"" or ""Uganik Island,"" published by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 23). The U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) erroneously transliterated Captain Tebenkov's spelling as ""Uganuk"" and U.S. Bureau of Fisheries (USBF) did the same in 1888." |
Borough: | Kodiak Island Borough |
Latitude: | 57.8890686035 |
Longitude: | -153.366989136 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Uganik Island: Uganik Island.
Note that you do not have the right to enter private property without the owner's permission. You do have a right to access goverment property that is open to the general public. The GNIS Feature Detail Report for Uganik Island does not include property ownership information.
Uganik, AK
(8.5 miles S) Port OBrien, AK (11 miles S) |
Port Wakefield, AK
(16 miles NE) |