Description
Lukanin Rookery is located on Lukanin Point, on S coast of Saint Paul I., in Pribilof Islands.
History
Elliott (1881, p. 164) wrote "*** 'Lukannon'; so named after one of the Russian pioneers, a sailor, who is said to have taken from St. Paul Island in 1787, over 5,000 sea-otter, aided by another promyshlenik, named Kaiekov; ***." According to Petrof (Bancroft's History of Alaska, 1890, p. 183) Ivan Lukanin was "the peredovchik (senior officer) with Ismailof."