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Little East Rookery

Little East Rookery

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  • Aleutians West (CA)
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1.2 mi. E of village of Saint George, on N coast of Saint George I., in Pribilof Islands.

History of Little East Rookery

The name is reported as "Little Eastern Rookery" by Elliott (1881, p. 61); this rookery has 750 ft. of sea=margin for seals. It was called "Little East Rookery" by Joseph Stanley=Brown, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in 1891, and by W. W. Duffield, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), in 1897. Putam (1903, p. 1015), U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), gives the Aleut name as "Kreg'lucht'en-ang'ten-algarel'ogrey." (Board on Geographic Names (BGN) orthography) meaning "the rookery at Kregluchten." See Kregluchten. "the rookery at Kregluchten." See Kregluchten.

Found on the following Topo Maps
Pribilof Islands (1958), Saint George Island East (2001),