Afognak Island is a physical feature (island) in Kodiak Island Borough. The primary coordinates for Afognak Island places it within the 99615 ZIP Code delivery area.
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Feature Name: | Afognak Island |
Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
Feature Type: | Physical |
Class: | Island |
Description: | N of Kodiak I.; Kodiak I. |
History: | "native name published by Reverend Coxe (1780, p. 289) as ""Afagnack."" Captain George Vancouver (1798, v. 3, p. 175) referred to this island in 1794 as that ""which the Russians call Fogniak * * *.: was called ""Afognack"" by Capt Lisianski (1814, p. 186), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), and ""Ostrov Afognak"" or ""Afognak Island"" by Lieutenant Sarichev (1826, map 5), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), and Captain Tebenkov (1852), map 22), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN) (1785, v. 2, p. 404), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), suspected that this feature might be an island, but referred to it as a part of the Alaska Peninsula." |
Borough: | Kodiak Island Borough |
Latitude: | 58.25 |
Longitude: | -152.5 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Afognak Island: Afognak Island.
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