Hagemeister Island () is an uninhabited

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in the

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, located on the north shore of

Bristol Bay Bristol Bay (, ) is the easternmost arm of the Bering Sea, at 57° to 59° North 157° to 162° West in Southwest Alaska. Bristol Bay is 400 km (250 mi) long and 290 km (180 mi) wide at its mouth. A number of rivers flow in ...

at the entrance to

Togiak Bay Togiak Bay is an bay in the U.S. state of Alaska. It extends southwest from the Togiak River to Hagemeister Island and east from Tongue Point to the mouth of the Negukthlik River. History During the 1930s, Togiak Bay was identified by miners ...

. The island is long, has a land area of , and its highest point is . It has no permanent population at the 2000 United States census. It is named for Ludwig Karl August von Hagemeister, a Baltic German explorer in Russian service ( IRN), who commanded three voyages to

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and around the world. On the ''Neva'' in 1806–07, on the ''Kutuzov'' in 1816–19, and in 1828–30 on the ''Krothoy''. The name was published as "Ostrov Gagemeister" by Lt. Sarichev (1826, map 3). The island is part of the Bering Sea unit of the

Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge The Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (often shortened to Alaska Maritime or AMNWR) is a United States National Wildlife Refuge comprising 2,400 islands, headlands, rocks, islets, spires and reefs in Alaska, with a total area of , of wh ...

References

Hagemeister Island: Block 3039, Census Tract 1, Dillingham Census Area, Alaska
United States Census Bureau * Islands of the Bering Sea Islands of Alaska Islands of Dillingham Census Area, Alaska Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge Protected areas of Dillingham Census Area, Alaska Islands of Unorganized Borough, Alaska {{DillinghamAK-geo-stub