Islands of Four Mountains
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Islands of Four Mountains is an island grouping of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, United States. The chain includes Amukta, Chagulak, Yunaska, Herbert, Chuginadak, Carlisle, Uliaga, and Kagamil Islands. This island chain is located between the Fox Islands to the east, and the Andreanof Islands to the west, and extending from Samalga Pass west to Amukta Pass.
The name is translated from Russian "O(strova) Chetyre Soposhnye," meaning "Islands of Four Volcanoes" (Sarichev, 1826, map 3) and was applied by the early Russian explorers because of four prominent volcanoes located on four of the islands. The Aleut name "Unigun" was reported in 1940 by Father Veniaminov. There appears to be confusion regarding the names of these islands, possibly because only four of the five are on most early maps and charts. The present names were gathered in 1894 by a field party on the USS Concord and published in 1895 by the U.S. Navy Hydrography Office (Chart 8).
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