Unalga Island is a physical feature (island) in Aleutians East Borough.
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Feature Name: | Unalga Island |
Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
Feature Type: | Physical |
Class: | Island |
Description: | one of Fox Islands. Between Akutan and Unalaska Islands., Aleutian Islands. |
History: | "Aleut name reported by Reverend Coxe (1787, p. 209), who took it from the 1768-69 logs of Captain Lieutenant P. K. Krenitzin and Lieutenant M. Levashev, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN). Published as ""O(strov) Unalga,"" or ""Unalga Island,"" by Lieutenant Sarichev (1826, map 14, dated 1792), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN); reported as ""Oonella Island"" by Captain Cook (1778, v. 2, p. 425), RN; as ""Ostrov Oonalgi"" by Commodore Billings (1792, p. 232), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN); and as ""Ounalga Isle"" by Captain Lutke (1836 p. 288), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN)." |
Borough: | Aleutians East Borough |
Latitude: | 53.9763870239 |
Longitude: | -166.144165039 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Unalga Island: Unalga 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 Unalga Island does not include property ownership information.
Unalaska, AK
(17.5 miles WSW) |
Akutan, AK
(18.7 miles NE) |
Biorka, AK
(10.7 miles SSW) |
Dutch Harbor, AK
(17.3 miles WSW) |