Seal Islands, Aleutians East
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The Seal Islands are a group of coastal islands in the Bering Sea, close to the shores of Bristol Bay, Alaska.
The Seal Islands consist of a 11 km long sand bar broken at various points and forming a dozen or more long and narrow islands. The highest point is 1 m. Administratively these islands belong to the Aleutians East Borough, Alaska. They are located 50 km to the southwest of Port Heiden Airfield.
The Seal Islands appear as "Ostrova Nerpichoi," meaning "Seal Islands" on Russian maps. They were given their name by Captain Mikhail Dmitrievich Tebenkov, who charted the Northwest Coasts of America (1852, map 24), IRN. They appeared for the first time as "Seal Islands" on an USBF chart in 1888.
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