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Tangik Island

Tangik Island

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1 mi. SE of Akun I., one of Krenitzin Islands., Aleutian Islands.

History of Tangik Island

Aleut name published by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 26), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as "O(strov) Tangik," which, according to R. H. Geoghegan, means "island." U.S. Bureau of Fisheries (USBF) proposed the name "Waverly."