Chuginadak Island
| Chuginadak Island | ||
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Islands of Four Mountains ( Alëuten ) | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 51 ′ N , 169 ° 49 ′ W | |
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| length | 23 km | |
| surface | 167 km² | |
| Highest elevation |
Mount Cleveland 1730 m |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Chuginadak Iceland ( aleutian : Tanax Angunax ) is the second largest of the Islands of Four Mountains , part of the Aleutian archipelago . Chuginadak is an Alëutic name mentioned on a map by Captain Tebenkov in 1852. According to RH Geoghegan, the Alëutic root word "chugi" means something like "to fry" or "to roast". The western half of the island is called Chuginadax in Aleut .
The island is approximately 23 km long. The active stratovolcano Mount Cleveland forms the entire western half of the land mass. A narrow strip of land separates the volcano from the rugged and lower eastern side of the island. The only larger geographical place is the 4 km long Applegate Bay (alëutisch: Chuguuĝix ̂) on the north coast. The bay was named after Samuel Applegate of the US Coast and Geodetic Survey , who commanded the schooner Nellie Juan while exploring the area in the 1880s.
On the island of Chuginadak, next to Mount Cleveland, there is also the stratovolcano Mount Tana .