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Agattu
Agattu () is an island in the Near Islands in the western end of the Aleutian Islands. With a land area of Agattu is one of the largest uninhabited islands in the Aleutians. It is the second largest of the Near Islands, after Attu Island. It is volcanic and considerably mountainous. The treeless island has a tundra-like terrain which reaches a peak of above sea level. Its length is and width is .
Agattu has seven large seabird colonies, and an estimated population of 66,000 birds. About 1% of the global population of red-faced cormorants and tufted puffins nest on the island. Other inhabitants include rock sandpiper, red-necked phalarope, gray-crowned rosy finch and snow bunting.〔(Audubon: Birds & Science )〕 Aleutian cackling geese were reintroduced to the island after foxes were eliminated from the island in the 1970s.〔(Ptarmigan pioneers island-hop in Aleutians, Alaska Science Forum )〕 The elimination of the foxes on the island also made it possible for conservationists to reintroduce the Evermann's rock ptarmigan. In 2006 there were reports of at least 25 breeding pairs of the ptarmigan on the island.〔(Biological clock turned back in western Aleutians )〕
==Inhabitants==
Archeological excavations have discovered evidence and remains of Aleuts living on Agattu Island as early as 760 BCE.〔 D.G. Corbett, D. Causey, M. Clemente, P.L. Koch, A. Doroff, C. Lefavre, D. West (2008) "Aleut Hunters, Sea Otters, and Sea Cows", ''Human Impacts on Ancient Marine Ecosystems'', University of California Press〕 Based on the number of simultaneously inhabited archeological sites on the island, experts have estimate that the pre-contact population may have reached 500-1000 individuals.〔 D.G. Corbett, D. Causey, M. Clemente, P.L. Koch, A. Doroff, C. Lefavre, D. West (2008) "Aleut Hunters, Sea Otters, and Sea Cows", ''Human Impacts on Ancient Marine Ecosystems'', University of California Press〕 After Russian contact with the Aleutians in 1751, the population on Agattu declined precipitously. Russian traders would stay multiple years at a time in the Near islands hunting sea otter. Interactions with the Aleuts were sometimes violent. A veteran Russian navigator was killed by the locals on Agattu in 1761. By the 1760s, all Near Islanders had moved into a single village on Attu Island. During World War II, the villagers of Attu were interned in Japan and at war's end the survivors were resettled on Atka Island.〔(National Park Service )〕
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