Hagemeister Island
| Hagemeister Island | ||
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| Waters | Bering Sea | |
| Geographical location | 58 ° 40 ′ N , 160 ° 56 ′ W | |
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| length | 26 km | |
| surface | 300 km² | |
| Highest elevation | 543 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Hagemeister Island is an uninhabited island in Alaska . The island is at the north end of Bristol Bay at the entrance to Togiak Bay . Hagemeister is 26 km long and about 300 km² in size. The highest point is 543 meters above sea level.
It got its name after the German-Baltic navigator and governor of the Russian-American company Ludwig von Hagemeister , who discovered it in 1818. For the first time the name of Gavriil Andrejewitsch Sarytschew was recorded as Ostrov Gagemeister in the nautical charts.
The island is part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge .