Alaska Gazetteer
Ship Rock is a physical feature (island) in Aleutians West (CA) Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Ship Rock |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Island |
| Description: | off NE coast of Umnak I. in Umnak Pass, 2 mi. S of Pustoi I. and 15 mi. SE of Fort Glenn, Aleutian Islands. |
| History: | "Translation from the Russian ""K(amen) Korabl"" (Tebenkov, 1852, map 25, dated 1849). Captain Lutke (1836, p. 302), calls it ""Tanghinakh,"" possibly from the Aleut word ""tangidak,"" which, according to R. H. Geoghegan, means ""islet or small island,"" a name which also applies to Pustoi Island. Although Ship Rock is surrounded by treacherous riptides and currents that make boat landings almost impossible, Hrdlicka (1945, p. 182, 323-329), Smithsonian Institution, excavated here in 1937. He found mummified remains of the ""pre-Aleut * * *"" which had not been disturbed and showed"" no trace of white man's influence * * *.""" |
| Borough: | Aleutians West (CA) Borough |
| Latitude: | 53.3711128235 |
| Longitude: | -167.830001831 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Ship Rock: Ship Rock.
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 Ship Rock does not include property ownership information.
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Chernofski, AK
(11.8 miles ENE) Egorkovskoi, AK (15.1 miles NNW) |
Umnak, AK
(17.5 miles WSW) |
