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Kiska is an island in the Rat Islands group of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska located at 52.1° N, 177.6° E. It is about 22 miles (35 km) long and varies in width from 1.5 to 6 miles (2.4–9.7 km)
While returning from his second voyage, explorer Vitus Bering discovered most of the Aleutian Islands including Kiska. Georg Wilhelm Steller, a naturalist-physician onboard, wrote:
"On October 25, 1741 we had very clear weather and sunshine, but even so it hailed at various times in the afternoon. We were surprised in the morning to discover a large tall island at 51° to the north of us."
Map of the western Aleutians. Kiska is island number 7; Attu is number 1Kiska, the Aleutians, and Alaska would later become fur outposts for the Russian-American Company managed by Grigory Shelikhov starting in 1775 .
In 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska, and with it Kiska, from Russia for the United States.