Alaska Gazetteer
Nunivak Island is a physical feature (island) in Bethel (CA) Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Nunivak Island |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Island |
| Description: | in Bering Sea, separated from Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta by Etolin Strait; Youkon-Kuskokwim Delta. |
| History: | "discovered on July 21, 1821, by Captain Lieutenant M. N. Vasiliev, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), and named after his ship Otkritie (Discovery). Khromchenko of the Russian American Company found the island about the same time. ""Nounivak"" (sic) had been properly retained on charts and added, had this course been followed in other cases, much confusion and embarrassment would have been avoided." |
| Borough: | Bethel (CA) Borough |
| Latitude: | 60.0950012207 |
| Longitude: | -166.211105347 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Nunivak Island: Nunivak 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 Nunivak Island does not include property ownership information.
| Difjakamiut, AK (17.1 miles S) |
