Kodiak Island
| Kodiak Island | ||
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Kodiak Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 57 ° 28 ′ N , 153 ° 26 ′ W | |
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| length | 160 km | |
| width | 96 km | |
| surface | 8th 975 km² | |
| Highest elevation | Koniag Peak 1353 m |
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| Residents | 13,740 1.5 inhabitants / km² |
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| main place | Kodiak | |
Kodiak Island is a 8975 km² island off the south coast of Alaska ( USA ) in the North Pacific . It belongs to the Kodiak Island Borough .
The largest island in the Kodiak Archipelago and the second largest in the United States (after Hawaii ), it is located south of the Shelichov Strait , which separates the island from the mainland. The island's mountains rise up to 1,353 m. 13,592 inhabitants live on Kodiak (as of the 2010 US census), of which: 55.3% white, 13.2% "Native Americans", 19.6% Asians (especially Filipinos), 0.7% African-American, 7.6 % with more than one ethnic affiliation (of which 4.2% partly “Native Americans”). The main town on the island is the town of Kodiak , which is located on the east coast. In the southwest, the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge takes up around two thirds of the island's area.
history
The island was before the Europeans of Sugpiaq , one of the Yupik - Eskimo tribes southern Alaska settled that count still one of the local indigenous people.
The first known European is the Russian explorer and fur trader Stephan Gawrilowitsch Glotov who landed on Kodiak in 1763. In 1778, James Cook landed on the island as part of his third voyage to the South Seas, which until then had only been visited occasionally by Russian fur hunters, until Shelichov founded the first permanent settlement on Kodiak in 1783 as part of his Russian expedition to America on behalf of the Russian Empress Catherine II . This made Kodiak Island the first place of permanent settlement by Russian colonizers in Alaska. On the island is the St. Herman Orthodox Theological Seminary , where the priests of the Orthodox Church in America are trained.
The island is home to the Kodiak bears named after it . There is a rocket launch site on the island, the Pacific Spaceport Complex - Alaska .
Just a little further to the northwest is the small Afognak Island and southwest the Trinity Islands .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ray Hudson, Rachel Mason: Lost Villages of the Eastern Aleutians: Biorka, Kashega, Makushin . United States National Park Service, 2014, ISBN 978-0-9853948-7-5 , pp. 17 (American English, nps.gov [PDF; accessed July 20, 2020]).
- ↑ http://kodiakisland.net/timeline.html
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