Kanaga Island

Kanaga Iceland is an island of Andreanof Islands, an island group in the south west of the Aleutian Islands.

Description of the island

The U.S. state of Alaska to the scoring, uninhabited island has a land area of ​​about 480 km ², 49 km long and an average of almost 9 km wide.

Volcano Mount Kanaga

The northern part of the island is from the 1307 m high active stratovolcano Mount Kanaga dominated the last erupted in 1995. In the south and east, a crescent-shaped ridge frames the volcano, which is probably his hand rest of a former caldera.

Then the dacitic tuffs discovered would reference. Debris avalanche tracks have also been discovered, ranging up to 30 km into the sea. Various other shield and stratovolcanoes are likely to be preceded them.

Bird colony

Kanaga Iceland is home to, among others, a breeding colony at Bartalken, the smallest after Zwergalk Auk. The breeding colony was discovered in 1994 when a research ship to the island approached to investigate in more detail by two lava fields.