Description
Chistiakof Island is located forms a SW-NE crescent across NE side of Port Heiden, 2.5 mi. SW of Port Heiden Airfield; Bristol Bay Low. 3.5 miles long.
History
name reported as "I(le) Chestakoff" by Admiral A. J. von Krusenstern (1827, map 20), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), possibly for Peter Egorowich Chistiakof. Director of the Russian American Company from 1826 to 1831.