Poa Island (also called ''Ostrov Tumannyi'' or ''Tumannoi'';
the native name in
Aleut
The Aleuts ( ; russian: Алеуты, Aleuty) are the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands, which are located between the North Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea. Both the Aleut people and the islands are politically divided between the ...
is ''Saduuĝinax̂''
) is an islet located about off the south coast of
Akun Island
Akun Island ( ale, Akungan) is one of the Fox Islands (Alaska), Fox Islands subgroup of the Aleutian Islands in the Aleutians East Borough, Alaska, Aleutians East Borough of southwestern Alaska.
Geography
The island lies east of Akutan Island and ...
in the
Fox Islands group of the eastern
Aleutian Islands
The Aleutian Islands (; ; ale, Unangam Tanangin,”Land of the Aleuts", possibly from Chukchi ''aliat'', "island"), also called the Aleut Islands or Aleutic Islands and known before 1867 as the Catherine Archipelago, are a chain of 14 large v ...
,
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 ...
. The island is long and reaches a maximum elevation of about above sea level.
It was named for
a genus of grasses in 1888 by the
U.S. Bureau of Fisheries.
Captain Tebenkov (1852) called it "Ostrov Tumannyi," meaning "foggy island."
References
Islands of Aleutians East Borough, Alaska
Fox Islands (Alaska)
Islands of Alaska
Islands of Unorganized Borough, Alaska
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