Avatanak Island

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Avatanak Island
Waters Pacific Ocean
Archipelago Aleutian Islands
Geographical location 54 ° 5 ′  N , 165 ° 22 ′  W Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′  N , 165 ° 22 ′  W
Avatanak Island (Alaska)
Avatanak Island
length 16 km
Highest elevation 147  m
Residents uninhabited

With a length of 16 km, Avatanak Island is the second largest of the Krenitzin Islands , a sub-group of the Fox Islands in the eastern Aleutian Islands , Alaska . It is located southeast of Akun Island , across Avatanak Strait . Within the Krenitzin Islands, it lies between Rootok Island in the west and Tigalda Island in the east.

The island has an area of ​​about 30 km². The highest point on the island is 147 m above sea level. The interior of the island is mountainous in the east and west and rather gently hilly in the center. Most of the south and east coast is formed by steep cliffs. The northern coast has both steep cliffs and wide river valleys. There are several freshwater lakes in the interior of the island.

"Avatanak Aiktak" is an Aleutian name that has been passed down by Russian researchers in various pronunciations and probably with the Aiaialgutak of Captain Lt. Krenitzin and Lt. Levashev (1768) is identical. The name "Avatanak" was spread by Innokenti Weniaminow (1840) and Michail Tebenkow (1852), while Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke and the Russian Hydrographic Department (1847) used "Avatanok".

The Avatanak Predator Removal Project intends to restore the bird population, which had been reduced by the oil spill caused by M / V Kuroshima , which ran aground on November 26, 1997 , by capturing the arctic foxes introduced around 1920 . After a preliminary study from 2002, the pre-fox removal wildlife surveys at Avatanak Island , the actual program has been running since 2004 under the direction of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service .

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