Avatanak Island

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Avatanak Iceland is 16 km in length, the second largest island of the Krenitzin Islands, a subgroup of the group of islands of the Fox Islands in the eastern Aleutian Islands, Alaska. It is located south-east of Iceland Akun, beyond the Avatanak Street. Within the Krenitzin Islands lie between Rootok Iceland in the west and in the east Tigalda Iceland.

The island has an area of ​​about 30 km ². The highest point of the island is 147 m above sea level. The interior of the island is in the east and west and mountainous in the center rather gently undulating. Most of the southern and eastern coastal form steep cliffs. On the north coast there are both steep cliffs as well as broad stream valleys. In the interior there are some freshwater lakes.

" Avatanak Aiktak " is an Aleutian name that was narrated by Russian researchers in various debate and probably with the Aiaialgutak Captain Lt. Krenitzin and Lt. Levashev ( 1768) is identical. The name " Avatanak " was Innokenty Weniaminow (1840 ) and Mikhail Tebenkov (1852 ) distributed, while Fyodor Petrovich Liitke and the Russian hydrographic Department used ( 1847) " Avatanok ".

The Avatanak Predator Removal Project intends to bring the reduced by on 26 November 1997 runs aground M / V Kuroshima caused oil spill bird population back to its previous state by the introduced around 1920 Arctic foxes are to be captured. After a preliminary study from 2002, the pre -fox removal wildlife surveys at Avatanak Iceland, the actual program has been running since 2004 under the leadership of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.