Tigalda Island
| Tigalda Island | ||
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Aleutian Islands | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 6 ′ N , 165 ° 3 ′ W | |
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| length | 19 km | |
| Highest elevation | 55 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Tigalda Island ( Aleut Qigalĝan ) is an island of the Krenitzin Islands and belongs to the Aleutian Islands . Tigalda is about 30 km from Akutan . The island is 19 km long and about 233 km² in size.
It was first mentioned under the name Kagalga in 1768 by the seafarers Pyotr Kuzmich Krenitsyn and Michail Dmitrijewitsch Levaschow . Your Aleut name was first published by Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke in 1836. The Russian missionary and priest Innokenti Weniaminow reported in 1840 that there were 40 inhabitants in a settlement called Tigaldinskoe on the now uninhabited island.