Samalga Island
Location in Alaska
Samalga Island (
Umnak Island. It has a land area of 1.589 square miles (4.12 km2) and is uninhabited. It is separated from the Islands of Four Mountains
group to the west by the Samalga Pass.
Samalga is the farthest point west on the Aleutian Island chain that still keeps the Alaska UTC−9 time zone (UTC−8 daylight time from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November as of 2010[update]). It is also the closest Alaskan island to Hawaii.
References
- Notes
- ^ Bergsland, K. (1994). Aleut Dictionary. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center.
- Sources
- Samalga Island: Block 1079, Census Tract 1, Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska United States Census Bureau
52°47′00″N 169°12′17″W / 52.78333°N 169.20472°W
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