Information About

Sarana Island

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Sarana Island on The Map

Location

54 ° 57' 55.001" N,
161 ° 54' 11.002" W

Region

Aleutians East

Nearest City

False Pass

Elevation

49 ft (14.94 m)

Sarana Island in Detail.

About

10 mi. SW of Dolgoi I., at SW end of Aleutian Range

History

Russian name published by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 24), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as "O(strov) Sarannoy" meaning "Martagon Island." The martagon is a kind of lily grown on the Kamchatka Peninsula and was used to make liquor for the Bering Expedition in 1738 (Bancroft, 1886, p. 57). "Saranoy", the transliteration of the Russian name, was published in 1888 by U.S. Bureau of Fisheries (USBF).