Information About

Twoheaded Island

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Twoheaded Island on The Map

Location

56 ° 54' 13" N,
153 ° 35' 2" W

Region

Kodiak Island

Nearest City

Akhiok

Part of

Kodiak Island

Elevation

909 ft (277.06 m)

Twoheaded Island in Detail.

About

7 mi. NE of Kaguyak, on coast of Kodiak I.

History

Descriptive name; first reported by Captain Cook (1785, v. 2, p. 406), RN, as "Two-headed Point. It seems that he was not able to tell that this feature was not a part of the mainland as he said, "The North East extreme was lost in a haze, but the point to the South West, whose elevated summit terminated in two round hills, on that account was called two-headed Point * * *." The generic, island, was first used by Lieutenant Sarichev (1826, map 17), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), who published the native name as "Os(trov) Nasiktakh," i.e. Nasiktakh I."