Description
Amaknak Island is located in Fox Is., in Unalaska Bay, on NE coast of Unalaska I., Aleutian Is.; 4.3 miles long.
History
Aleut name; published by Lieutenant Sarichev (1826, maps 14-15), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN) as "Ostr(ov) Amaknakh", meaning "Amaknak Island." Spelled "amakhnak" by Captain Lutke (1836, p. 281), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN); "Amaknak" by U.S. Bureau of Fisheries (USBF) in 1888. According to R. H. Geoghegan, the name means "burial place," from "amaiknag" meaning "place of impurity".