Sagchudak Island (also spelledSagtchudakh) is a small island in theAndreanof Islands group in theAleutian Islands of southwesternAlaska. The roughly rectangular island is approximately 1.4 miles (2.3 km) long and 0.6 mi (1 km) wide and lies about 0.93 mi (1.50 km) off the southern coast ofAtka Island. The island's current name is nearly identical to the nativeAleut name for the island and it entered navigational charts by the early 1850s.[1][2] In the 1900s and 1910s, the island was one of many Aleutian islands stocked withfoxes by theUnited States government forhunting andfur trading purposes.[3] Although the foxes on uninhabited Sagchudak were not directly hunted, some were occasionally trapped and moved to and from the island to help ensuregenetic stability in the various separated colonies.[4]
52°01′17″N174°29′26″W / 52.02139°N 174.49056°W /52.02139; -174.49056
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