- Krenitzin Islands
The Krenitzin Islands (centered at ca. coord|54|10|00|N|165|34|60|W|region:US-AK|display=inline,title) are a group of small islands located in the eastern portion of the Fox Islands group of the eastern
Aleutian Islands ,Alaska . The Krenitizins are situated betweenUnalaska Island to the southwest andUnimak Island to the northeast. Named islands in the Krenitzins group include Aiktak, Avatanak, Derbin, Kaligagan (Qisĝagan), Rootok (Aayux̂tax̂), Round, Tigalda, and Ugamak. All of these islands are managed as part of the Aleutian Islands Unit of theAlaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge . The Krenitzins have a total land area of 159.533 km² (61.596 sq mi) and have no population.The Krenitzins were probably named by Captain Tebenkov in
1852 for Captain Lt.Peter Kuzmich Krenitzin (or Krenitsyn) who, with Lt. M. D. Levashev explored and mapped over 30 islands in the Aleutians1768 -1769 . Captain Tebenkov spelled the name "Ostrova Krinitsyna," which translates to Krenitzin Islands.External links
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* Orth, Donald J. 1971. "Dictionary of Alaskan place names". U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 567, 1083 pp.
* [http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DTTable?_bm=y&-show_geoid=Y&-tree_id=4001&-_caller=geoselect&-context=dt&-errMsg=&-all_geo_types=N&-mt_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_P001&-redoLog=false&-transpose=N&-search_map_config=|b=50|l=en|t=4001|zf=0.0|ms=sel_00dec|dw=17.701027675209602|dh=6.035539041852557|dt=gov.census.aff.domain.map.EnglishMapExtent|if=gif|cx=-170.20089635341083|cy=63.430295928031335|zl=8|pz=8|bo=318:317:316:314:313:323:319|bl=362:393:358:357:356:355:354|ft=350:349:335:389:388:332:331|fl=381:403:204:380:369:379:368|g=04000US02&-PANEL_ID=p_dt_geo_map&-_lang=en&-geo_id=100$10000US020130001001050&-CONTEXT=dt&-format=&-search_results=100$10000US020160001001054&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U Krenitzin Islands: Block 1050, Census Tract 1, Aleutians East Borough, Alaska] United States Census Bureau
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