Fire Island, Alaska
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There are three islands named Fire Island in the U.S. state of Alaska.
One is 0.1 miles long (160 m) and located in Kashevarof Passage, off the north coast of Prince of Wales Island, at .
Another Fire Island in the eastern Aleutian Islands at emerged in 1883, forming a companion island to Bogoslof Island. Originally, this Fire Island was named New Bogoslof (also Grewingk, after an Alaskan geologist). In 1909, President Theodore Roosevelt made Bogoslof and New Bogoslof a federally protected bird sanctuary.
A third Fire Island is in Cook Inlet, just off Anchorage; see Fire Island (Anchorage, Alaska).
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