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Hawadax Island (no 13). Hawadax Island (Aleut: Hawadax; [1]) is an island in the Rat Islands archipelago of the western Aleutian Islands in the U.S. state of Alaska.The island was formerly known as Rat Island until May 2012 when it was renamed Hawadax Island, which is an Aleut name meaning "entry" and "welcome".
The name Rat Islands is the English translation of the name given to the islands by Captain Fyodor Petrovich Litke in 1827 when he visited the Aleutian Islands on a voyage around the world. The islands are named so because rats were accidentally introduced to Hawadax Island (formerly known as Rat Island) in about 1780. [4]
Pinzón Island, one of the Galápagos Islands has a rat eradication program which has contributed to a rebound in Galápagos tortoise populations there. [5] Hawadax Island in the western Aleutian Islands in the US state of Alaska also had a successful rat eradication program in the 2000s.
In this region, Island Conservation works primarily in Puerto Rico, The Commonwealth of The Bahamas, and the Dominican Republic. In May 2012, Island Conservation and the Bahamas National Trust worked together to remove invasive house mice from Allen Cay to protect native species including the Allen Cays rock iguana and Audubon's shearwater. [42]
Eventually, in 2018, the island was officially declared rat free, and it has maintained that status ever since. Populations of the island's endemic lizards have bounced back since the rats were ...
The entire rat populations of several islands have been eradicated, most notably New Zealand's Campbell Island, [26] Hawadax Island, Alaska (formerly known as Rat Island), [27] Macquarie Island [28] and Canna, Scotland (declared rat-free in 2008). [29] According to the Friends of South Georgia Island, all of the rats have been eliminated from ...
Hawadax Island, Alaska was declared rat free after 229 years [65] and Campbell Island, New Zealand after almost 200 years. [66] [67] Breaksea Island in New Zealand was declared rat free in 1988 after an eradication campaign based on a successful trial on the smaller Hawea Island nearby. [68] [69]
Rat Island may refer to: Ilha dos Ratos, the original name for Ilha Fiscal in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Hawadax Island, Alaska, USA, formerly known as "Rat Island" Rat Island, New York, USA; Rat Island (Houtman Abrolhos), an island in Western Australia; An alternative name for Burrow Island in Portsmouth Harbour, Hampshire, England