Description
Kiukpalik Island is located in Shelikof Strait, off NE coast of Alaska Peninsula, in Katmai National Monument, 13 mi. NE of Cape Chiniak, and 49 mi. S of Augustine I.; Aleutian Range
History
Eskimo name transliterrated by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) in 1886 from Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 22), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), who published the name as "O(strov) Kayukhpalik." the name as "Os(trov) Ukayukhpalyk" in 1847 on Chart 1378.