Fire Island, Alaska

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For other islands called Fire Island, see Fire Island.

There are three islands named Fire Island in the U.S. state of Alaska.

1 Different Islands
2 Other
3 External links

[edit] Different Islands

[edit] In the Kashevarof Passage

One is 0.1 miles long (160 m) and located in Kashevarof Passage, off the north coast of Prince of Wales Island, at 56°14′N 133°3′W.

[edit] Bogoslof Island

Another Fire Island in the eastern Aleutian Islands at 53°56′N 168°2′W emerged in 1883, forming a companion island to Bogoslof Island. Originally, this Fire Island was named New Bogoslof (also Grewingk, after an Alaskan geologist). In 1909, President Theodore Roosevelt made Bogoslof and New Bogoslof a federally protected bird sanctuary.

[edit] Anchorage

Main article: Fire Island (Anchorage, Alaska)

A third Fire Island is in Cook Inlet, just off Anchorage, the largest and most well known of all of them.

[edit] Other

A solo "experimental folk" musician from South Carolina has been performing as fire island, AK since late 2004. "Fire Island, AK" is also a song by The Long Winters on the 2006 album Putting the Days to Bed.