11 Facts About Kodiak Island

Kodiak Island, is a large island on the south coast of the U S state of Alaska, separated from the Alaska mainland by the Shelikof Strait.

Kodiak Island is the namesake for Kodiak Seamount, which lies off the coast at the Aleutian Trench.

Kodiak Island is mountainous and heavily forested in the north and east, but fairly treeless in the south.

Kodiak Island is part of the Kodiak Island Borough and Kodiak Archipelago of Alaska.

An antenna farm at the summit of Pillar Mountain above the city of Kodiak provides primary communications to and from the island.

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Kodiak Island is the ancestral land of the Sugpiaq, an Alutiiq nation of Native Americans.

Kodiak Island was explored in 1763 by Russian fur trader Stepan Glotov.

In 1792, the settlement was moved to the site of present-day Kodiak Island and became the center of Russian fur trading with the Alaska Natives.

The remaining Alutiiq on Kodiak Island were then consolidated into seven settlements where they were more readily offered medical, educational, and religious services by the Russian-American Company.

Wildlife on Kodiak Island was devastated by ash and acid rain from the eruption.

Kodiak Island was hit by the 1964 Good Friday earthquake and tsunami, which destroyed much of the waterfront, the business district, and several villages.