Amchitka Island
Amchitka Island is a volcanic, tectonically unstable and uninhabited island in the Rat Islands group of the Aleutian Islands in southwest Alaska. It is part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: island in Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska, United States
- Also known as: “Amchitka”
Amchitka Island
- Categories: island and locality
- Location: Aleutians West, Alaska, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.56842° or 51° 34′ 6″ northLongitude
178.87494° or 178° 52′ 30″ eastElevation
98 feet (30 metres)IATA airport code
AHTUnited Nations Location Code
US AHTOpen location code
9V3WHV9F+9XOpenStreetMap ID
node 150920790OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Amchitka Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أمشيتكا”
- Asturian: “Islla Amchitka”
- Azerbaijani: “Amçitka adası”
- Belarusian: “Амчытка”
- Catalan: “Amchitka”
- Cebuano: “Amchitka Island”
- Chinese: “阿姆奇特卡島”
- Czech: “Amchitka”
- Czech: “Amchixtax”
- Czech: “Amčitka (Aljaška : ostrov)”
- Czech: “Amčitka”
- Dutch: “Amchitka”
- Esperanto: “Amchitka”
- Esperanto: “Amĉitka”
- Esperanto: “Amĉitko”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Amĉitko”
- Finnish: “Amchitka”
- French: “Amchitka”
- Galician: “Amchitka”
- German: “Amchitka Island”
- German: “Amchitka”
- German: “Amčitka (Aljaška : ostrov)”
- Hebrew: “אמצ’יטקה”
- Hebrew: “אמציטקה”
- Hungarian: “Amchitka”
- Italian: “Amchitka”
- Japanese: “アムチトカ島”
- Persian: “آمچیتکا”
- Polish: “Amczitka”
- Russian: “Амчитка (остров)”
- Russian: “Амчитка”
- Serbian: “Амчитка”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Amchitka”
- Spanish: “Amchitka”
- Spanish: “Emplazamiento de Pruebas Subterraneas de Amchitka”
- Spanish: “Emplazamiento de Pruebas Subterráneas de Amchitka”
- Spanish: “Flintlock Long Shot”
- Spanish: “Grommet Cannikin”
- Spanish: “Isla Amchitka”
- Spanish: “Isla de Amchitka”
- Spanish: “Long Shot (prueba nuclear)”
- Spanish: “Mandrel Milrow”
- Turkish: “Amchitka Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Амчитка”
- Ukrainian: “Амчітка”
- Vietnamese: “Amchitka”
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