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Needle Rock

Needle Rock

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  • Aleutians West (CA)
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off NW coast of Amaknak I., in Unalaska Bay, on NE coast of Unalaska I., Aleutian Islands.

History of Needle Rock

Descriptive name given by W. H. Dall, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), in 1874. A 1791 map by John Henry Cox shows this name applied to another rock near here. See Wagner (1937, p. 475).