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Sanak Island () is an island in the Fox Islands group of the Aleutian Islands in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located at . Sanak Island and Caton Island are the largest islands in the Sanak Islands subgroup of the Fox Islands. Travel to the island is currently done by fishing vessel. The trip takes about five hours to cross the roughly 40 mile distance from King Cove to Sanak. ==History== Like many of the other Aleutian Islands, Sanak was inhabited by the Aleut people for thousands of years. In 1828, the administrators of Russian America removed the island's population to the Alaska Peninsula in order to preserve the sea otter hunting grounds in surrounding waters. The island was never resettled.〔Black, Lydia T. ''Russians in Alaska: 1732-1867''. University of Alaska Press, 2004. pp. 199.〕 Two famous shipwrecks, one in 1906 and another in 1943, occurred near Sanak. The U.S. Navy operated a small Naval base at Sanak Island during World War II. Although Sanak is no longer occupied, the island is still owned by its former residents who visit the island occasionally to harvest the feral cattle that live there. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sanak Island」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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