| LC control no. | sh2008008819 |
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| Geographic heading | Chirikof Island (Alaska) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | Alaska--Chirikof Island |
| Variant(s) | Akamok Island (Alaska) Chirikoff Island (Alaska) Chirikov Island (Alaska) Elkamok Island (Alaska) Foggy Island (Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska) Infante Island (Alaska) Isla Infante (Alaska) Okamok Island (Alaska) Ookamok Island (Alaska) Ostrov Chirikov (Alaska) Ostrov Ugamok (Alaska) Oukamok Island (Alaska) Tchirikoff Island (Alaska) Tscherikow Island (Alaska) Tscherikow's Island (Alaska) Tschirikoff Island (Alaska) Tumannoi Island (Alaska) Ugamok Island (Alaska) Ukamok Island (Alaska) Ukamuk (Alaska) Ukamuk Island (Alaska) Yukamak Island (Alaska) |
| See also | Islands--Alaska Kodiak Archipelago (Alaska) |
| Found in | Work cat.: Survivors from wreck of schooner Joseph Russ boarding steamer Dora, off Chirikof Island, April 1912, via the John E. Thwaites digital images collection, viewed May 19, 2008. GNIS, May 19, 2008 (Chirikof Island, island, Alaska, Kodiak Island Borough; variants: Akamok Island, Okamok Island, Ugamok Island, Ukamok Island, Tschirikoff, Foggy Island, Ostrov Ugamok, Ookamok, Tscherikow, Chirikoff, Ostrov Chirikov, Akamok, Tscherikow's Island, Tumannoi, Elkamok, Isla Infante, Ukamok, Yukamak, Oukamok, Tchirikoff; Foggy Island also name or variant name for other Alaska islands) Wikipedia, Nov. 13, 2008 (Chirikof Island is located in the Gulf of Alaska approximately 80 miles (130 km) southwest of Kodiak Island; Alaska, Kodiak Island Borough, 55°48ʹN 155°37ʹW; archipelago: Kodiak Archipelago; area: 114.787 km² (44.320 sq mi)) Alutiiq Museum & Archaeological Repository Web site, Nov. 13, 2008 (Chirikof Island - Ukamuk. Chirikof is an isolated, windy island at the far southern end of the Kodiak Archipelago. This 11 mile long, pear-shaped piece of land lies about 100 miles southwest of Kodiak Island. Westerners sighted the island in 1741. A Russian naval expedition led by Vitus Bering and Alexi Chirikov sailed by the island naming it Tumannoi- Foggy Island. Nearly 60 years later, Captain Vancouver renamed the island Chirikov, in honor of Alexi Chirkiov [sic]. Ukamuk has a rolling, treeless terrain) Kodiak Island Borough Web site, Nov. 13, 2008: Our Community > Map of the Kodiak Island Borough (map shows Chirikof Island as part of borough) |
| Not found in | Columbia gaz. of North America, via WWW, Nov. 13, 2008 |
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