Amaknak Island or Umaknak Island (Aleut: Amaxnax̂) is an islet in Unalaska Bay, northeast of Unalaska Island in the Fox Islands group of the Aleutian Islands in southwest Alaska. The Dutch Harbor area of Unalaska, Alaska is on Amaknak Island. The land area is 3.3 sq.mi., (8.5 km2), and the population was 2,524 as of the 2000 census, comprising almost 59 percent of the city of Unalaska's population. It is the most populous of all the islands of the Aleutians chain.
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