Shumagins, Big Koniuji Island with MV Tiglax

The Shumagin Islands (

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: ''Qagiiĝun''; russian: Острова Шумагина) are a group of 20 islands in the

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south of the mainland of

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, at 54°54'–55°20' North 159°15'–160°45' West. The largest islands are

Unga Island Unga Island (Uĝnaasaqax̂ in Aleut) is the largest of the Shumagin Islands off the Alaska Peninsula in southwestern Alaska, United States. The island has a land area of 170.73 sq mi (442.188 km2), making it the 36th largest island in the Un ...

, Popof Island,

Korovin Island Korovin Island (''Tanĝanuk'' in Aleut) is one of the Shumagin Islands in the Gulf of Alaska south of the Alaska Peninsula in the Aleutians East Borough of Alaska, United States. The island lies northeast of Popof Island and across the Unga Strait ...

, and

Nagai Island Nagai Island is one of the largest of the Shumagin Islands in the Gulf of Alaska, south of the Alaska Peninsula considered a part of the NE Aleutian Range. It is located in the United States state of Alaska at , and is long. According to the log ...

. Other islands include Andronica, Big Koniuji, Little Koniuji, Simeonof, Chernabura, and Bird. The total land area is 1,192.369 km² (460.376 sq mi) and their total population as of the 2020 census was 578 persons, almost entirely in the city of Sand Point, on Popof Island. The Shumagin Islands were named after Nikita Shumagin, one of the sailors on

Vitus Bering Vitus Jonassen Bering (baptised 5 August 1681 – 19 December 1741),All dates are here given in the Julian calendar, which was in use throughout Russia at the time. also known as Ivan Ivanovich Bering, was a Danish cartographer and explorer in ...

's 1741 expedition to North America who died of scurvy and was buried on Nagai Island.

References

Shumagin Islands: Block Group 3, Census Tract 1, Aleutians East Borough, Alaska
United States Census Bureau

External links

South Unimak and Shumagin Islands June fisheries salmon management plan, 2007
/ by Aaron D. Poetter. Hosted by th
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