The Semidi Islands are a group of islands of the state of

Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S. ...

, United States, lying offshore in the

Gulf of Alaska The Gulf of Alaska (Tlingit: ''Yéil T'ooch’'') is an arm of the Pacific Ocean defined by the curve of the southern coast of Alaska, stretching from the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island in the west to the Alexander Archipelago in the east ...

. The islands are part of

Kodiak Island Borough Kodiak Island Borough (russian: Остров Кадьяк) is a borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. At the 2020 census, the population was 13,101, down from 13,592 in 2010. The borough seat is Kodiak. Geography The borough has a total area ...

and are located southwest of

Kodiak Island Kodiak Island ( Alutiiq: ''Qikertaq''), is a large island on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, separated from the Alaska mainland by the Shelikof Strait. The largest island in the Kodiak Archipelago, Kodiak Island is the second la ...

, about halfway between the Alaska Peninsula mainland and

Chirikof Island Chirikof Island (russian: Остров Чирикова) is located in the Gulf of Alaska approximately southwest of Kodiak Island. Terrain Chirikof Island consists of of grasses and sedges. Treeless, it lies west of the western tree line in Al ...

. The largest islands of the group are Aghiyuk Island and Chowiet Island. The island group has a total land area of 30.178 km² (11.652 sq mi) and is uninhabited. They are part of the Alaska Peninsula unit of the

Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge The Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (often shortened to Alaska Maritime or AMNWR) is a United States National Wildlife Refuge comprising 2,400 islands, headlands, rocks, islets, spires and reefs in Alaska, with a total area of , of whi ...

Wilderness

Before being combined with other wilderness areas to form the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge in 1980, the Semidi Wilderness was known as the Semidi National Wildlife Refuge. The 250,000 acre

wilderness area Wilderness or wildlands (usually in the plural), are natural environments on Earth that have not been significantly modified by human activity or any nonurbanized land not under extensive agricultural cultivation. The term has traditionally re ...

provides habitat for 2.4 million birds, almost half the breeding seabirds of the Alaska Peninsula Unit, including 370,000 horned puffins. The seabed area around the islands provides temporary habitat for populations of sea otters, sea lions, seals, porpoises, and whales.Semidi Wilderness
- Wilderness Connect

References

Islands of the Kodiak Archipelago Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge Protected areas of Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska Uninhabited islands of Alaska Islands of Alaska {{KodiakIslandAK-geo-stub