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Kodiak Island

Quick Facts

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Location

57 ° 23' 46" N,
153 ° 28' 59.999" W

Region

Kodiak Island

Nearest City

Port Lions

Elevation

2057 ft (626.97 m)

Fatalities

1

Tributaries

Ditto Islands, Shag Bluff, Ikpik Hill, Oval Mountain, Akhiok Island, Dry Spruce Island, Dusk Islands, Harvester Island, Holiday Island, Isthmus Island, Kalsin Island, Kekur Island, Ladder Island, Little Raspberry Island, Miller Island, Nachalni Island, Nest Island, Noisy Islands, Nut Island, Prokoda Island, Queer Island, Raspberry Island, Refuge Island, Rocky Islet, Sally Island, Sitkalidak Island, Sundstrom Island, Svitlak Island, Tanner Head, Treeless Island, Twoheaded Island, Uganik Island, Uski Island, Viesoki Island, Winter Island, Wooded Island, Zaimka Island, Devilpaw Mountain, Devils Prongs, Dog Ear Mountain, Erskine Mountain, Grayback Mountain, Heitman Mountain, Koniag Peak, Luchek Mountain, Monashka Mountain, North Twin Peak, Old Womens Mountain, Pillar Mountain, Raymond Peak, Shaft Peak, Sharatin Mountain, Slope Peak, South Twin Peak, Tungulara Mountain, Eddys Range, Marin Range, Zaimka Ridge,

Kodiak Island in Detail.

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in Gulf of Alaska, S of Cook Inlet.

History

This island, the largest in Alaska, native home to the Kodiak Bear, was first discovered by Stephen Glotov in 1763. "Glotof (sic) however did not land till he reached the last and most Eastward of these islands, called by th e inhabitants Kadyak."(Coxe 1787, p. 124). According to Bancroft (1886, p. 141), "Glottof finally anchored on the 8th of September off the coast of a large and mountainous island, called Kikhtak by the natives, but now known as Kadiak." Petroff (in Bancroft, p. 224) says, "Kikhtak, or Kikhtowik, is the Innuit word for island. At the present day (1886) the natives of the peninsula speak of the Kodiak people simply as Kikhtagamutes, islanders. The The tribal name appears to have been Kaniag and the Russian appellation now in use probably derived from both." The name "Kodiak" was first used on October 20, 1778, by Captain Cook (1785, v. 2, p. 504) who wrote, "It was from him (Ismyloff) that we got the name of Kodiak."

Fatalities

On September 23, 2011, 1 person died while plane piloting. Read More