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The Pavlof Islands (Qudugin in
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) are a group of seven islands that lie south of
Pavlof Bay Pavlof Bay is an inlet in Alaska located on the southwestern edge of the Alaska Peninsula. It is on the peninsula's south coast, is about 50 miles (80 kilometers) long, and lies directly north of the Pavlof Islands. The 8,261-foot (2,518-meter) vol ...
on the
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. They are part of the Aleutians East Borough in the U.S. state of
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. The islands include Dolgoi Island (Anganax̂six̂), Goloi (Atx̂uunux̂), Inner Iliasik (Iluuĝix̂ Ixsaĝdaaĝux̂), Outer Iliasik (Qagaaĝix̂ Ixsaĝdaaĝux̂), Poperechnoi (Kuyagdax̂), Ukolnoi (Kitaĝutax̂̂), and Wosnesenski (Unatxux̂). Dolgoi Island is the largest of these in area. They have a total land area of and are uninhabited. An increase in earthquake activity was noted at Pavlof on June 1, 1997. Two days later the
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in Cold Bay reported a steam plume rising above Pavlof's summit. The
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monitors the volcano and expects renewed activity. Pavlof last erupted from September to December 1996. This update is based on information posted by the
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's Alaska Volcano Observatory on Volcan ListServ on June 3, 1997. 1838 A.F. Kashevarov, a Creole commanding Russian-American Company merchant vessels, led a party traveling in skin boats from Cape Lisburne to a point 30 miles east of Point Barrow. He recorded information about the
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. The English name for the island comes from Pitka Pavalof, a Creole of Russian-Native. In 1893, Pitka Pavalof and Sergei Gologoff Cherosky, Creoles of Russian-Native descent, found gold on Birch Creek in Interior Alaska. Learning of the discovery, prospectors jumped their claims and argued that the claims were invalid because the men were Natives. The discovery attracted more non-Natives to the Yukon River and the town of
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was founded.See Year 1893 under Section: 1867 to 1896 on the WebPage: http://vilda.alaska.edu/cdm4/timeline.pdf


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