Chirikof Island

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The Chirikov Island (English Chirikof Iceland ) is a 114.7 km ² large island in the Pacific Ocean off the southern coast of Alaska (USA). It belongs to Kodiak Iceland Borough and is located 290 km southwest of Kodiak Iceland.

As part of the Kodiak archipelago is the unwooded, 18 km long and 11 km wide island south of the Alaska Peninsula. The highest point is at 300 m. The Chirikov Island is currently uninhabited, but have been excavated on their old tools that have been dated back about 4200 years. In the recent time, a cattle farm was operated on the island, which, however, was abandoned in 2000.

The island was discovered in 1741 by Russian sailors Alexei Ilyich Chirikov. To him, the island was named in 1798 by English explorer George Vancouver after him to honor.

According to rumors, the island was used by the Russians as a prison island - feared, mainly because time and again to spill times huge waves on the island who take everything on it with the sea.

The Chirikov Island was incorporated in 1980 by the Congress of the United States with the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act in the nature reserve of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.