Hagemeister Island is an island

Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...

 in the U.S. state

U.S. state

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 of Alaska

Alaska

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, located on the north shore of Bristol Bay

Bristol Bay

Bristol Bay is the eastern-most arm of the Bering Sea, at 57° to 59° North 157° to 162° West in Southwest Alaska. Bristol Bay is 400 km long and 290 km, wide at its mouth...

 at the entrance to Togiak Bay

Togiak Bay

Togiak Bay is an 18-mile-long bay in the U.S. state of Alaska. It extends southwest from the Togiak River to Hagemeister Island and east 25 miles from Tongue Point to the mouth of the Negukthlik River....

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The island is 16 miles (25.7 km) long, has a land area of 115.9 square miles (300.2 km²), and its highest point is 604 feet (184.1 m). It has no permanent population at the 2000 census

United States Census, 2000

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It is named for Russia

Russia

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n Captain Leonty Andrianovich Gagemeister

Leonty Andrianovich Gagemeister

Ludwig August von Hagemeister was a Russian seafarer of Baltic German origin and explorer of the Pacific Ocean, Captain of the 1st rank.In 1806-1807, Hagemeister journeyed from Kronstadt to Russian America, crossing the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans in his ship Neva. In 1808–1809, he...

 (IRN

Imperial Russian Navy

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), who commanded three voyages to Russian America and around the world. On the Neva in 1806-07, on the Kutuzov in 1816-19 , and in 1828-30 on the Krothoy. The name was published as "Ostrov Gagemeister" by Lt. Sarichev (1826, map 3).

The island is part of the Bering Sea unit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge

Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge

The Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge is a United States National Wildlife Refuge comprising 2,400 islands, headlands, rocks, islets, spires and reefs in Alaska, with a total area of , of which is wilderness)...

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