59 ° 26' 10" N,
146 ° 19' 44" W
Valdez-Cordova (CA)
118 ft (35.97 m)
in Gulf of Alaska, 80 mi. SW of Cordova; Malaspina Coastal Plain.
Middleton Island is an uninhabited island in the Gulf of Alaska. It has an airstrip, old military buildings, and FAA buildings. There is also a shipwreck on its western shore.
Historynamed in 1794 by Captain George Vancouver, RN, "probably after Sir Charles Middleton, a rear admiral and comptroller of the navy. named it 'Hijosa." but soon changed this to 'Galiano'" (Wagner, 1937, p. 397-398). The Eskimo name "Achakoo" was published for this island by Bancroft (1886, p. 268); Captain Tevenkov (1852, map 6), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), called it "Ostrov Ochek" or "Ochek Island," probably from "ochekanit," meaning "to chisel (or carve) round," because of its shape.
The air force base on the island was used from 1958 to 1963.
The 1964 earthquake raised the elevation of the island by 12ft.
Sorted by Most Common to Least Common Viewings
Glaucous-winged Gull, Golden-crowned Sparrow, Black-legged Kittiwake, Short-tailed Shearwater, Pectoral Sandpiper, Hermit Thrush, Buller's Shearwater, Varied Thrush, Western Sandpiper, Rhinoceros Auklet, Fox Sparrow, Least Sandpiper, Canada Goose, Savannah Sparrow, Tufted Puffin, Snow Goose, American Wigeon, Mallard, Northern Fulmar, Black Turnstone, Northern Pintail, Green-winged Teal, Common Murre, Cassin's Auklet, Rock Sandpiper, Red-necked Phalarope, Pelagic Cormorant, Black Oystercatcher, Herring Gull, Yellow Warbler, Sooty Shearwater, Lapland Longspur, Bufflehead, Sanderling, Surfbird, Wandering Tattler, Northern Shoveler, Greater White-fronted Goose, Harlequin Duck, Long-billed Dowitcher, Wilson's Snipe, Horned Puffin, Pacific Golden-Plover, Semipalmated Plover, Ancient Murrelet, Pacific Wren, Gadwall, Surf Scoter, Red-necked Grebe, Marbled Murrelet, Pacific Loon, Bank Swallow, Orange-crowned Warbler, Lesser Yellowlegs, Pine Siskin, Greater Yellowlegs, Red-breasted Merganser, Cackling Goose, White-winged Scoter, Long-tailed Duck, Buff-bellied Pipit, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Iceland Gull, Pomarine Jaeger, Parasitic Jaeger, Double-crested Cormorant, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Arctic Tern, American Robin, Greater Scaup, Chipping sparrow, Tundra Swan, Aleutian Cackling Goose, Lincoln's Sparrow, Spotted Sandpiper, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Snow Bunting, Whimbrel, Black Scoter, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Mottled Petrel, Dark-eyed Junco, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Parakeet Auklet, Common Merganser, Ruddy Turnstone, Dunlin, White-winged Crossbill, Horned Grebe, Flesh-footed Shearwater, Baird's Sandpiper, Townsend's Warbler, Short-billed Dowitcher, Red Crossbill, Wilson's Warbler, Red Phalarope, Common Gull, Canvasback, Western Wood-Pewee, Common Loon, Horned Lark, Ring-necked Duck, Black-footed Albatross, Common Redpoll, Pink-footed Shearwater, White-crowned Sparrow, Bald Eagle, Gray-cheeked Thrush, Leach's Storm-petrel, Lesser Scaup, Black-bellied Plover, Yellow-billed Loon, Rusty Blackbird, Laysan Albatross, Northern Harrier, Merlin, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Cedar Waxwing, Sandhill Crane, Peregrine Falcon, Trumpeter Swan, American Golden Plover, Fork-tailed Storm-petrel, Tree Swallow, Bristle-thighed Curlew, Stilt Sandpiper, Alder Flycatcher, Redhead, Hudsonian Godwit, American Tree Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Common Goldeneye, Upland Sandpiper, Solitary Sandpiper, Bonaparte's Gull, Red-throated Loon, Manx Shearwater, Short-eared Owl, Violet-green Swallow, Red-throated Pipit, Gray-crowned Rosy Finch, Blackpoll Warbler, Palm Warbler, Eurasian Wigeon, Red Knot, Downy Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Bohemian Waxwing, Red-winged Blackbird, Blue-winged Teal, Sabine's Gull, Great Blue Heron, Say's Phoebe, Pigeon Guillemot, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Rough-legged Hawk, Warbling Vireo, Northern Shrike, Common Raven, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Brown Creeper, Townsend's Solitaire, White-throated Sparrow, Common Pochard, Marbled Godwit, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, South Polar Skua, Long-tailed Jaeger, Kittlitz's Murrelet, Glaucous Gull, Caspian tern, Osprey, Snowy Owl, Belted Kingfisher, Purple Martin, Tennessee Warbler, Tufted Duck, Barrow's Goldeneye, Hooded Merganser, Ruddy Duck, Rock Ptarmigan, Eared Grebe, Band-tailed Pigeon, Pacific Swift, Rufous Hummingbird, Common Ringed Plover, Killdeer, Bar-tailed Godwit, Ruff, Curlew Sandpiper, Red-necked Stint, Gray-tailed Tattler, Thick-billed Murre, Red-legged Kittiwake, California Gull, Slaty-backed Gull, Arctic Loon, Short-tailed Albatross, Red-faced Cormorant, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Red-breasted Sapsucker, American Kestrel, Eurasian Hobby, Willow Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher, Hammond's Flycatcher, Dusky Flycatcher, Philadelphia Vireo, Red-eyed Vireo, Eurasian Skylark, Barn Swallow, Wood Warbler, Dusky Warbler, Northern Mockingbird, Mountain Bluebird, Swainson's Thrush, Siberian Stonechat, Northern Wheatear, Eastern Yellow Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit, Brambling, Purple Finch, Smith's Longspur, Rustic Bunting, Clay-colored Sparrow, Harris's Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, Northern Waterthrush, Nashville Warbler, Mourning Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, American Redstart, Cape May Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Western Tanager
