Description
Tanaga Island is located one of Andreanof Islands.; Aleutian Islands. 204 square miles in size.
History
Aleut name published by Lieutenant Sarichev (1826, map 3), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), and Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 28), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as "O(strov) Tanaga," or "Tanaga Island." Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as "Taniaga" and by Grewingk (1850, p. 230) as "Takawangha."