Description
1.5 mi. W of Ulak I., Delarof Islands., Aleutian Islands.
History
Aleut name published by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 28), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as "O(strov) Tanadak", or "Tanadak Island." The Aleut name may mean "crab place" or according to R. H. Geoghegan, the name means "eternal ground" or "burial place" and comes from the Aleut "tanadakuq", which means "he goes to his eternal ground, he dies."