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This is a list of islands of the U.S. state of Alaska. Approximately 2,670 named islands help to make Alaska the largest state in the United States . [A] [ 1 ]
Avatanak Island (Agutanax̂) Baby Islands; Bird Island (Kitnamax) Bogoslof Island (Aĝasaaĝux̂) - sanctuary for sea lions and nesting marine birds; Breadloaf Island (Taanĝiinax̂) Buck Island (Ukdax̂sxix) Caton Island (Qagan Unimgix̂) Chagulak Island (Chugssĝinax̂) Alaska with Aleutian island chain (at bottom), Unalaska Island is marked.
Pages in category "Islands of Alaska" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 284 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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). The axis of the archipelago near the mainland of Alaska has a southwest trend, but at Tanaga Island (about 178° W) its direction changes to the ...
Map of the western Aleutian Islands, showing the Near Islands on the left: Attu Island (1), Agattu Island (2), Alaid Island (3), Nizki Island (4), and Shemya Island (5). The Near Islands or Sasignan Islands (Aleut: Sasignan tanangin, [1] Russian: Ближние острова) are a group of American islands in the Aleutian Islands in southwestern Alaska, between the Russian Commander Islands ...
It includes islands that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Uninhabited islands of Alaska" The following 66 pages are in this category, out of 66 total.
Alaska's territorial waters touch Russia's territorial waters in the Bering Strait, as the Russian Big Diomede Island and Alaskan Little Diomede Island are only 3 miles (4.8 km) apart. Alaska has a longer coastline than all the other U.S. states combined. [40] Alaska's size compared with the 48 contiguous states (Albers equal-area conic projection)
Kodiak Island (Alutiiq: Qikertaq, Russian: Кадьяк) is a large island on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, separated from the Alaska mainland by the Shelikof Strait. The largest island in the Kodiak Archipelago , Kodiak Island is the second largest island in the United States and the 80th largest island in the world , with an ...
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