Hall Island (Alaska)

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Hall Island is a small island located 5.6 km to the northwest of St. Matthew Island in the Bering Sea in Alaska, USA. It serves as a haulout site for Pacific walrus. It is 8 km in length and has a land area of 15.995 km² (6.1758 sq mi). The highest point is 490 m. Hall Island is uninhabited.

[edit] History

Early Russian hunters knew this island as "Ostrov Morzhovoy" ('Walrus Island') (Tevenkov, 1852, mpa 20). The Imperial Russian Hydrographic Department Chart 1427 called it "Ostrov Sindsha" probably for Lt. Sind, its alleged discoverer, in 1764.

Commodore Joseph Billings of the Imperial Russian Navy and Lt. G.A. Sarichev anchored between this island and St. Matthew on July 14, 1791 (O.S.). Since 1875, this island has been called "Hall" on American maps, presumably for Lt. Robert Hall, who was with Captain Billings, or also for Cape Hall.

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Coordinates: 60°37′26″N, 173°05′19″E

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