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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 .
Nikolski is located at 6] According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 132.8 square miles (344 km 2), of which, 132.1 square miles (342 km 2) of it is land and 0.7 square miles (1.8 km 2) of it (0.55%) is water. The island is in the maritime climate zone.
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.
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The Anangula Site (also Anangula Archeological District and Ananiuliak Island Archeological District) is an archaeological site in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska.Located on a 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long island off the western coast of Umnak Island, it lies 3.1 miles (5.0 km) north-northwest of Nikolski Bay. [3]
In the Aleut language, they are known by the endonyms Unangan (eastern dialect) and Unangas (western dialect); both terms mean "people". [a] The Russian term "Aleut" was a general term used for both the native population of the Aleutian Islands and their neighbors to the east in the Kodiak Archipelago, who were also referred to as "Pacific Eskimos" or Sugpiat/Alutiit.
Mount Vsevidof (/ ˌ v ɪ z ə ˈ v iː d ɒ f / or / v ə ˈ ʃ eɪ v ɪ d ɒ f /; [4] Russian: Вулкан Всевидова) is a stratovolcano in the U.S. state of Alaska.Its summit is the highest point on Umnak Island, one of the eastern Aleutian Islands.
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]