Shemya Island
Shemya or Simiya is a small island in the Semichi Islands group of the Near Islands chain in the Aleutian Islands archipelago southwest of Alaska, at. It has a land area of 5.903 sq mi, and is about 1,200 miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska.- Island
- …has 27 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 177 feet (54 metres)
- …has the IATA airport code SYA
- …was formerly known as “Semitchi Island”
- Description: island in Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska, United States
- Also known as“Fhemya Island”“Sabya”“Samiyax”“Shemea”“Shemya”“Shenya Island”“Simiya Island”
Shemya Island
- Category: landform
- Location
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Latitude
52.72221° or 52° 43′ 20″ north
Longitude
174.11223° or 174° 6′ 44″ east
UN/LOCODE
US SYA
Open location code
9V4PP4C6+VV
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Aleut to Turkish—“Shemya Island” goes by many names.
- Aleut: “Samiyax̂”
- Asturian: “Islla Shemya”
- Azerbaijani: “Simiya adası”
- Catalan: “Illa Shemya”
- Cebuano: “Shemya Island”
- Chinese: “申雅島”
- Dutch: “Shemya”
- French: “Shemya”
- German: “Shemya Island”
- Italian: “Shemya”
- Japanese: “シェミア島”
- Japanese: “シェミヤ島”
- Persian: “شمیا استیشن، آلاسکا”
- Persian: “شمیا استیشن”
- Russian: “Симия”
- Russian: “Шемья”
- Spanish: “Isla Shemya”
- Spanish: “Shemya”
- Spanish: “Simiya”
- Turkish: “Shemya Adası”
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