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According to the United States Census Bureau, 64 people were living on Unimak as of the 2000 census, all of them in the city of False Pass at the eastern end of the island. Cape Lutke is a headland on the island. Cape Pankof is located at the extreme southwest of the island. The Fisher Caldera is a volcanic crater in the
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 ...
Fisher Caldera, also known as Mount Fisher and Fisher Volcano, is a large volcanic caldera, measuring about 6.8 miles (11 km) by 11 miles (18 km), located on Unimak Island in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. [1]
Boundaries of the city of False Pass, Alaska. False Pass is at (54.827886, -163.399090 It is near the eastern end of Unimak Island, in the Aleutian Islands chain. Part of the city (26.093 km 2, or 10.075 sq mi) is on the mainland's westernmost tip Alaska Peninsula, across the Isanotski Strait (about 600 meters at the closest point), although that section is nearly unpopulated.
Eickelberg Peak is an Aleutian Range stratovolcano located along the west rim of Fisher Caldera on Unimak Island of the Aleutian Islands. [5] Precipitation runoff from the mountain's east slope drains into the caldera and from the other slopes into tributaries of the Pogromni River.
Cape Lutke is a headland on Unimak Island, the largest island in the Aleutian Islands chain of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located on the southern central coast of the island. This headland was named Mys Litke, after Russian explorer Count Fyodor Petrovich Litke, by the Imperial Russian Hydrographic Service in 1847. "Litke" is the Russian ...
Shishaldin is located on Unimak Island, the easternmost of the Aleutian Islands. The nearest settlement to the volcano is False Pass (population ~100) at 45 km away. The view of Shishaldin from False Pass is obscured by the Round Top and Isanotski volcanoes, [2] preventing direct observations of eruptions in many instances. [7]
The Aleutian Range is a major mountain range located in southwest Alaska. It extends from Chakachamna Lake (80 miles/130 km southwest of Anchorage) to Unimak Island, which is at the tip of the Alaska Peninsula. It includes all of the mountains of the Peninsula.