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Umnak (Aleut: Unmax, Umnax; [3] [4] Russian: Умнак) is one of the Fox Islands of the Aleutian Islands. With 686.01 square miles (1,776.76 km 2 ) of land area, it is the third largest island in the Aleutian archipelago and the 19th largest island in the United States .
Umnak island is on Cretaceous seafloor; [50] the submerged Umnak oceanic plateau might extend under the island. [51] Southwest of Okmok, a ridge formed by Tertiary volcanic rocks joins the volcano to the rest of Umnak island [52] and the volcanoes Recheshnoi and Vsevidof. [22] Northeast of Okmok is the Idak plateau, an uplifted older volcano. [17]
The largest islands in the Aleutians are Attu (the farthest from the mainland), and Unalaska, Umnak, and Unimak in the Fox Islands. The largest of those is Unimak Island, with an area of 1,571.41 mi 2 (4,069.9 km 2), followed by Unalaska Island, the only other Aleutian Island with an area over 1,000 square miles (2,600 km 2).
Satellite shot of the islands of Umnak (left) and Unalaska (right). According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 212.3 square miles (549.9 km 2 ), of which 111.0 square miles (287.5 km 2 ) is land and 101.3 square miles (262.4 km 2 ) (47.71%) is water.
Fisher Caldera is located on Unimak Island [1] and named for American geologist Bernard Fisher, who died on June 22, 1946, while exploring the Umnak Pass. [2] It is 8 miles (13 km) by 6 miles (10 km) in area.
[11] It had 127 residents, of whom 117 were Aleut, 8 were Creole (Mixed Russian & Native) and 2 were White. [12] In 1890, it returned as "Umnak", with 94 residents, of whom 80 were native and 14 were Creole. [13] It did not appear again until 1920, when it again reported as "Umnak." Beginning with the 1930 census and to date, it has reported as ...
The Chaluka Site is a prehistoric archaeological site and National Historic Landmark in Nikolski, Alaska, on Umnak Island in the Aleutian Islands of southwestern Alaska.The site documents more than 4,000 years of more-or-less continuous occupation of the area now occupied by the modern village of Nikolski.
Despite its small size, Amaknak is the most populous of all the islands of the Aleutians chain, with 2,524 residents as of the 2000 census.Though located within the boundaries of the City of Unalaska, the inhabitants of Amaknak generally regard themselves as residents of Dutch Harbor, which is the portion of the City of Unalaska located on Amaknak Island.