Information About

Rudisell Reef

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Rudisell Reef on The Map

Location

52 ° 56' 57.001" N,
168 ° 52' 5.002" W

Region

Aleutians West (CA)

Nearest City

Unalaska

Rudisell Reef in Detail.

About

at mouth of Mueller Cove, in SE part of Nikolski Bay, on SW coast of Umnak I., Aleutian Islands.

History

Named in 1939 by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) for Maurice G. Rudisell, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), a fireman on a survey party who was drowned on May 28, 1938, when a survey boat struck this reef. See Mueller Cove.