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Annette Island
Annette Island or Taak'w Aan is an island in Gravina Islands of the Alexander Archipelago of the Pacific Ocean on the southeastern coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is at . It is about long and about wide. The land area is . Annette Island is located across the Revillagigedo Channel from the Alaska mainland on the east and across from Revillagigedo Island on the north. The Island was named for Annette Whitney Dall by William Healey Dall in 1879.
The meaning of the Tlingit name for the island is Winter Town.
==Community and demographics==
The largest settlement on the island is Metlakatla. Metlakatla is a native Community founded by the Anglican missionary William Duncan. The entire island is a Native reservation, the only one in Alaska. The island's population was 1,447 at the 2000 census.〔(Annette Island: Block Groups 1 and 2 and Blocks 3004 thru 3013, Block Group 3, Census Tract 4, Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Census Area, Alaska ) United States Census Bureau〕 The island is composed mainly of Tsimshian natives and is a cultural crossroads for Tlingit and Haida Natives as well. There exists a network of unimproved roads and trails on the island as a result of logging in the past.
〔() Fact Sheet: Operation Alaskan Road:Joint Task Force Alaskan Road. Retrieved on February 6, 2008.〕
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