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Kodiak Island
Kodiak Island
is a large island on the south coast of the
U.S. state
of
Alaska
, separated from the Alaska mainland by the
Shelikof Strait
. The largest island in the
Kodiak Archipelago
, Kodiak Island is the
second largest island in the United States
and the
80th largest island in the world
, with an area of ., slightly larger than
Cyprus
. It is 160 km (100 miles) long and in width ranges from 16 to 96 km (10 to 60 miles). Kodiak Island is the namesake for
Kodiak Seamount
, which lies off the coast at the
Aleutian Trench
. The largest community on the island is the city of
Kodiak, Alaska
.
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