Amaknak Island or Umaknak Island (Aleut: Amaxnax̂) is an islet in Unalaska Bay, northeast of Unalaska Island in the Fox Islands group of the Aleutian Islands in southwest Alaska. The Dutch Harbor area of Unalaska, Alaska is on Amaknak Island. The land area is 3.3 sq.mi., (8.5 km2), and the population was 2,524 as of the 2000 census, comprising almost 59 percent of the city of Unalaska's population. It is the most populous of all the islands of the Aleutians chain.
Famous quotes containing the word island:
“An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancy for building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)