in Cook Inlet, at head of Alaska Peninsula, in Katmai National Monument, Aleutian Range
Named in 1794 "Shaw's Island" by Captain George Vancouver. "Shown on Vancouver's Chart (of 1798) but not mentioned in the text" (Wagner, 1937, p. 416). Native name was published in 1847 as "Ostrov Shunakhtuli" on Russian Hydrographic Dept. Chart 1378; named "O(strov) Kamyshak" in 1849 by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 5); Imperial Russian Navy (IRN).