Kosciusko Island facts for kids
Kosciusko Island is a beautiful island located in southeastern Alaska, United States. It's part of a group of islands called the Alexander Archipelago. You can find it just northwest of a bigger island called Prince of Wales Island, with the El Capitan Passage separating them.
This island is home to several mountains, including Mount Francis, Holbrook Mountain, and Tokeen Peak. Kosciusko Island is quite large, covering about 171.6 square miles (444.4 square kilometers). This makes it the 38th largest island in the United States! According to a count in 2000, only 52 people lived on the island, all in its only town, Edna Bay.
Naming Kosciusko Island
Kosciusko Island got its name in 1879 from William Healey Dall, a member of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. He named the island after Tadeusz Kościuszko, a famous Polish military leader who helped the United States during the American Revolutionary War.
The Village of Shakan
On the northwest coast of Kosciusko Island, there's a place where an old, now-empty village called Shakan used to be. It's important to know that this village was on Kosciusko Island itself, not on the smaller Shakan Island nearby.
Images for kids
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The village of Shakan on Kosciusko Island, around 1912.
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Fish drying on the side of a house in Shakan, July 1911.
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Cakes of seaweed being dried in Shakan, July 1911.
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Seaweed drying on the roof of a house in Shakan.
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