Description

Aiktak Island is located in Krenitzin Islands., 38 mi. E of Akutan, Fox Islands., Aleutian Islands. 1.3 miles long.

History

Aleut name transcribed by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 26), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN) as Ostrov Aikhtak. R. H. Geoghegan suggests that this name is aikhaq, meaning travel or going on a voyage.

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