Egg Island (Alaska)
| Egg Island | ||
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| Waters | Pacific | |
| Archipelago | Aleutian Islands | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 51 '46 " N , 166 ° 2' 38" W | |
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| surface | 1.259 km² | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Egg Island ( Aleutian : Ugalĝa ) is an uninhabited island of the Fox Islands belonging to the Aleutians . It is located east of Sedanka Island and is also the easternmost island of the US Aleutians West Census Area . Egg Island is 1.3 km² and is home to the largest known colony of yellow-capped lobsters .
The name "Egg Island" probably comes from the Russian navigator Gavriil Andrejewitsch Sarytschew , who discovered the small island in 1826 on an expedition to map the northern Pacific on behalf of the Russian Navy. It could also be that Sarichev took over the Russian names of Egg Island, "Ostrov Ugalgan" or "Ugalgan Island", from maps of the Russian explorer Pyotr Kuzmich Krenitsyn .
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Single receipts
- ^ Anthony J. Gaston and Ian L. Jones: The Auks . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1998, ISBN 0-19-854032-9 , p. 299