Alaska Gazetteer
Wooly Head is a physical feature (cliff) in Aleutians East Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Wooly Head |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Cliff |
| Description: | on W coast of Nagai I., in Shumagin Is., Aleutian Range |
| History: | "So named by fishermen prior to 1871 because of the violent gusts of wind called ""woolies"" experienced there; published by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) on an 1882 coast chart. This term is considered to be derived from a Patagonian word for a ""gust of ""wind"" or may be descriptive of the ""whitefoam formed on the water wind.""" |
| Borough: | Aleutians East Borough |
| Latitude: | 55.1122207642 |
| Longitude: | -160.186386108 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Wooly Head: Wooly Head.
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 Wooly Head does not include property ownership information.
| Unga, AK (13.5 miles WNW) |
