Description
SE of Kodiak I.
History
Transliteration by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) from various Russian froms of what Baker (1906, p. 579) calls " a corruption of some native word or phrase * * *." In 1794 Billings (in Saucr, 1802, p. 170) named it "Kukan" or "Kunakan "O(strov) Salthidack" in 1805 by Lisianski 1814, p. 181) and published as "Os(trov) Syakhlidok," or "Syakhlidok Island," by Sarichev (1826, map 3) and "O(strov) Syatkhlidak," or "Syatkhlidak Island," by Capt Tebenkov (1852, map 23), etc. Also named "Isla de Soto" or "forest island" by Galiano (1802, map 3).