Nagai Island

Nagai Island
Shumagin Islands, Nagai Island, 1985

Nagai Island is one of the largest of the Shumagin Islands in the Gulf of Alaska, south of the Alaska Peninsula considered a part of the NE Aleutian Range. It is located at 54°57′11″N 160°09′15″W / 54.95306°N 160.15417°W / 54.95306; -160.15417, and is 31 miles long.

According to the log of Vitus Bering's ship St. Peter, a sailor by the name of Nikita Shumagin died of scurvy and was buried here August 31, 1741. The Shumagin Islands were named after him.

References

  • Donald J. Orth (1967). Dictionary of Alaska Place Names. Glacier House Publications. ISBN 0-94478-002-4. 
  • Corey Ford (1966). Where the Sea Breaks Its Back. 



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