Fire Island is located in the eastern
Aleutian Islands
The Aleutian Islands (; ; ale, Unangam Tanangin,”Land of the Aleuts", possibly from Chukchi language, Chukchi ''aliat'', "island"), also called the Aleut Islands or Aleutic Islands and known before 1867 as the Catherine Archipelago, are a cha ...
at . It emerged in 1883, forming a companion island to
Bogoslof Island. Originally, this Fire Island was named New Bogoslof (also Grewingk, after an Alaskan
geologist
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).
In 1909,
President
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Theodore Roosevelt
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made Bogoslof and New Bogoslof a federally protected bird
sanctuary
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. Both islands are currently part of the
Bogoslof Wilderness
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in the Aleutian Islands unit of
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge
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.
Islands of the Aleutian Islands
Islands of Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska
New islands
Islands of Alaska
Islands of Unorganized Borough, Alaska
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