Description
Carlisle Island is located one of Islands of Four Mts.; Aleutian Islands.
History
named by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office in 1894 for John G. Carlisle, 1835-1910, Secretary of the Treasury. was called "O(strov) Tano" or "Tano Island" by Lieutenant Sarichev (1876, map 3), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN); "O(strov) Tanakh-Angunakh" or "Tanakh-Angunakh Island" by the Russian Hydrographic Dept. in 1847 on Chart 1379; and "O(strov) Kigalgin" or "Kigalgin Island" by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 25 dated 1849) Imperial Russian Navy (IRN). names differ from those published by Baker (1906, p. 264).