Loaf Island
Loaf Island is a small satellite of Attu Island in the Near Islands group at the extreme western end of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Loaf Island is situated in Massacre Bay on the southeast side of Attu.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Casco Cove Coast Guard Station.
Casco Cove Coast Guard Station
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Casco Cove Coast Guard Station was a military facility and private use airfield on Attu Island, one of the Aleutian Islands in the U.S. state of Alaska. Casco Cove Coast Guard Station is situated 1½ miles west of Loaf Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Navy Town.
Navy Town
Locality
Navy Town is a formerly populated place in the Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska, United States. It is located on the southeast coast of Attu Island, on the western shore of Massacre Bay, and was named during the military occupation of the area in World War II.
Loaf Island
- Type: Islet
- Description: island in Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska, United States
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Aleutians West, Alaska, United States, North America
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Latitude
52.83668° or 52° 50′ 12″ northLongitude
173.20726° or 173° 12′ 26″ eastElevation
7 feet (2 metres)Open location code
9V4MR6P4+MWOpenStreetMap ID
way 23988086OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=isletGeoNames ID
4045891Wikidata ID
Q1507648
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Spanish—“Loaf Island” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Islla Loaf”
- Cebuano: “Loaf Island”
- Chinese: “洛夫岛”
- Chinese: “洛夫島”
- Dutch: “Loaf Island”
- German: “Loaf Island”
- Italian: “isola Loaf”
- Italian: “Isola Loaf”
- Spanish: “Isla Loaf”
- Spanish: “Loaf Island”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as West Massacre Valley and Attu Battlefield and U.S. Army and Navy Airfields National Historic Landmark.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Massacre Beach and Japanese Cemetery.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Loaf Island”. Photo: Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0.