Kadin Island is an island in the

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of southeastern

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. It is located in the mouth of the

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, NW of

Wrangell Island Wrangell Island (russian: Остров Врангеля) is an island in the Alexander Archipelago in the Alaska Panhandle of southeastern Alaska. It is long and wide. It has a land area of , making it the 29th largest island in the United ...

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. Kadin Island is in length. The highest point on the island is above sea level. It belongs administratively to the City and Borough of Wrangell. This island was named in 1863 by the surveyors of the

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'' after pilot Mikhail Kadin, an

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born in Atka, who was also a member of the surveying party. Kadin drew the charts in the Tebenkov atlas, along with

Kozma Terentev Kozma is a Hungarian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Dominik Kozma (born 1991), Hungarian swimmer * István Kozma (footballer) (born 1964), Hungarian footballer * Július Kozma (1929-2009), Slovak chess player * Mihály Kozma ( ...

Sitka russian: Ситка , native_name_lang = tli , settlement_type = Consolidated city-borough , image_skyline = File:Sitka 84 Elev 135.jpg , image_caption = Downtown Sitka in 1984 , image_size ...

between 1848 and 1850.

References

* Islands of Wrangell, Alaska Islands of the Alexander Archipelago Islands of Alaska {{WrangellAK-geo-stub