Chamisso Island
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Chamisso Island is a small island in Kotzebue Sound
Kotzebue Sound
Kotzebue Sound is an arm of the Chukchi Sea in the western region of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is on the north side of the Seward Peninsula and bounded the east by the Baldwin Peninsula. It is long and wide....

, Alaska
Alaska
Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...

. It is located off Spafarief Bay
Spafarief Bay
Spafarief Bay is a bay in the Kotzebue Sound, on the Chukchi Sea-facing coast of Alaska. Its size is 15 mi. across. There is a lagoon at its southern end....

 at the mouth of Eschscholtz Bay
Eschscholtz Bay
Eschscholtz Bay is an arm of Kotzebue Sound, on the Chukchi Sea-facing coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is only eleven miles wide.It is located on the northern coast of the Seward Peninsula, 45 miles southwest of Selawik; Kotzebue-Kobuk Low. ....

, just south of the Choris Peninsula
Choris Peninsula
The Choris Peninsula is a cape in Alaska. It is located in the east of the Kotzebue Sound on the Chukchi Sea coast.The Choris Peninsula is a small landhead pointing southwards. Off its southern tip lies Chamisso Island....

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The island is roughly triangular. It is 1.4 miles (2.3 km) long and an 0.125 mile (0.2011675 km) wide. The highest point on Chamisso Island is 226 feet (68.9 m) above sea level.

Chamisso Island has been a Natural Reserve since December 7, 1912. The protected area, the Chamisso Wilderness
Chamisso Wilderness
Chamisso Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska. It was designated by the United States Congress in 1975.A small subunit of the Chukchi Sea Unit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, Chamisso Island and nearby Puffin Island were combined as a wildlife refuge in...

, includes Chamisso Island and nearby Puffin Island
Puffin Island, Alaska
Puffin Island is a rocky islet in the Kotzebue Sound, Alaska. It is located off Spafarief Bay at the mouth of Eschscholtz Bay, just south of the Choris Peninsula, in the Northwest Arctic Borough at ....

, as well as some rocky islets nearby. Both islands are part of the Chukchi 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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This island was named after naturalist Adelbert von Chamisso
Adelbert von Chamisso
Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...

, who reached the island in 1816.

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