Canoe Island
| Canoe Island | ||
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Aleutian Islands | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 56 '27 " N , 176 ° 2' 21" W | |
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| length | 2.7 km | |
| Highest elevation | 52 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Kanu Island is a small uninhabited island of the Andreanof Islands , which belongs to the Aleutian Islands . The island is about 2.7 km long and 52 m high and lies between Umak Island and Great Sitkin Island .
The original name Unak Island was changed to Canoe in 1936 to make it easier to distinguish between islands with similar names such as Ulak Island or Umak Island . Under its original Aleut name Yunakh Kanu was first recorded in the nautical charts by Mikhail Tebenkow in 1852 .