Alaska Gazetteer
The Pinnacle is a physical feature (island) in Aleutians East Borough.
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| Feature Name: | The Pinnacle |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Island |
| Description: | off SW coast of Wosnesenski I., 10 mi. NE of Dolgoi I., Aleutian Range |
| History: | "Noted as ""a remarkable pear-shaped pinnacle rock"" by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) in 1947 Coast Pilot (v.2, p.331). Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 24), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), showed some rocks in this area called ""Kekuri,"" meaning ""pillars;"" these appear on an 1882 U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) chart as ""Pinnacles,"" and again on a 1953 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) map as ""The Pinnacles.""" |
| Borough: | Aleutians East Borough |
| Latitude: | 55.168056488 |
| Longitude: | -161.413604736 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for The Pinnacle: The Pinnacle.
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