Sagchudak Island

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Sagchudak Island (also spelled "Sagtchudakh") is a small island in the Andreanof Islands group in the Aleutian Islands of southwestern Alaska. The roughly rectangular island is approximately convert|2.3|km|mi long and 1 km (0.6 mi) wide and lies about convert|1.5|km|mi|abbr=on off the southern coast of Atka Island. The island's current name is nearly identical to the native Aleut name for the island and it entered navigational charts by the early 1850s. [cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=dUQMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA540&dq=sagchudak+island |title=Bulletin - United States Geological Survey| |date=1906| publisher=United States Geological Survey| accessdate= 2008-09-23] [cite book|http://books.google.com/books?id=5XfxzCm1qa4C&pg=PA414&lpg=PA414&dq=sagchudak+island&source=web&ots=ZRdwlZnovn&sig=hrg6Nj8PB2mrHR0uBh9K0sObuco&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result| title=Native American Placenames of the United States| first=William| last=Bright| date=2004| publisher=University of Oklahoma Press| accessdate=2008-09-23| isbn=0806135980, 9780806135984] In the 1900s and 1910s, the island was one of many Aleutian islands stocked with foxes by the United States government for hunting and fur trading purposes. [cite web|url=http://pankov.narod.ru/pankovalaska.htm| title=New findings about Pan'kovs from Alaska| publisher=narod.ru| accessdate=2008-09-23] Although the foxes on uninhabited Sagchudak were not directly hunted, some were occasionally trapped and moved to and from the island to help ensure genetic stability in the various separated colonies. [cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=W7gYAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA6-PA101&dq=sagchudak+island#PRA6-PA100,M1|title=Annual Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries to the Secretary of Commerce for the Fiscal Year Ended 1918| date=1920| |publisher=United States Bureau of Fisheries| accessdate=2008-09-23]

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