Information About

Buldir Island

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Buldir Island on The Map

Location

52 ° 21' 29.002" N,
175 ° 55' 28.999" E

Region

Aleutians West (CA)

Nearest City

Adak

Part of

Rat Islands

Mountains

East Cape Volcano,

Buldir Island in Detail.

About

one of Rat Islands.; Aleutian Islands.

History

the October 28, 1741, (Old Style (O.S.) calendar), entry in the log book of the St. Peter, commanded by Vitus Bering, reads "By the will of God Stephan Buldirev (later written Stephan Bogdriev), naval cooper, dies of scurvey" (Golder, 1922, p. 210). Bering named an island "St. Stephen." Golder, correlate the island of Bering with that of present-day Buldir Island, and, if so, it may have been named for the sailor that died on its discovery day. published on a 1791 map by Lieutenant Sarichev (1826, map 3), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), and thus he may be responsible for the naming. Baker (1906, p. 151), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), gives the meaning of "Buldir" as "hut" (or hovel)," implying a descriptive name. v. 2, p. 247) appears to translate the name as "round".

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