Atka Island
Atka Island (Template:Langx,<ref name="Bergsland">Template:Cite book</ref> Template:Langx) is the largest island in the Andreanof Islands of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. The island is Template:Convert east of Adak Island. It is Template:Convert long and Template:Convert wide with a land area of Template:Convert, making it the 22nd largest island in the United States. The northeast of Atka Island contains the Korovin volcano which reaches a peak of Template:Convert. Oglodak Island is located Template:Convert off Cape Kigun, Atka's westernmost point.
The city of Atka, Alaska is on the east side of the island. The 2000 census population of the island was 95 persons, almost all in the city of Atka.<ref name="2000UScen">Atka Island: Blocks 1085 thru 1100 and Block 1103, Census Tract 1, Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska United States Census Bureau</ref>
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On December 5, 2008, President George W. Bush created the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument. A crashed B-24 Liberator on Atka is one of the nine sites included in the monument. As of July 2021 Atka is having a new modular medical clinic and quarantine shelter with a morgue being erected. This is through grants of the USDA and other parties such as native corp AHTNA & Whitley Manufacturing to serve the tribe.
Education
Atka is served by the Aleutian Region Schools.
The Yakov E. Netsvetov School, named after Jacob Netsvetov, serves grades K-12. It is the only school of the Aleutian Region School District.
References
Further reading
- Template:Cite book The author describes his three years serving on Atka as a military cryptologist during World War II.
- Template:Cite book The history of Atka Island from 1741 into the 20th Century is described. Originally published in 1933.
- Template:Cite book Biography of a married couple living on Atka Island in the 1930s, with descriptions of their daily life, fur trade and Japanese spy activity on Atka Island.