Ulak Island (Great Sitkin)

The title of this article is ambiguous. A much larger island of the same name is about 220 kilometers west of Ulak Island, see Ulak Island (Delarof Islands) .

Ulak Island
Waters	Pacific Ocean
Archipelago	Andreanof Islands , Aleutian Islands
Geographical location	52 ° 2 '33 "  N , 175 ° 53' 20"  W Coordinates: 52 ° 2 '33 "  N , 175 ° 53' 20"  W.
length	1.4 km
width	300 m
surface	46.5 ha
Highest elevation	206  m
Residents	uninhabited

Ulak Island is a very small, rocky island in the north of the Andreanof Islands , a group of islands in the southwest of the Aleutian Islands ( Alaska ). The island is only about 1.4 kilometers long, 0.3 kilometers wide and up to 206 meters high and has an area of ​​only about 46.5 hectares .

Bugle Point, the eastern headland on the closest and much larger neighboring island of Great Sitkin Island with the 1740 m high active stratovolcano Great Sitkin , which last erupted in 1987, is only 4.5 km to the west.

Footnotes

1. ↑ Great Sitkin, at the Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History (English)

Web links

• Brie A. Drummond and Allyson L. Larned: Biological monitoring in the central Aleutian Islands, Alaska in 2007: summary appendices. US Fish and Wildlife Service Report, AMNWR 07/06. Homer, Alaska, 2007, p. 3