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Cape Liakik

Cape Liakik

Quick Facts
Region:
  • Kodiak Island
Nearest City:
Elevation:
  • 92 ft (28.04 m)
About

between Three Saints Bay and Sitkalidak Strait, on SE coast of Kodiak I.

History of Cape Liakik

Transliteration of "M(ys) Lyakhik," published by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 23). Possibly derived from the Aleut word "lakh," which, according to R. H. Geoghegan, means "black=footed tundra goose," and which Father Veniaminov (1846, p. 47) published as "Lyakh."