Unalaska

Also known as Unalaska, Alaska, Dutch Harbor, Iluulux̂, Oululuk, Unalaska, AK, Dutch Harbor, Alaska, Dutch Harbor, AK

city in Alaska, United States

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Unalaska is a city located in Alaska that serves as a major hub for fishing and seafood processing in the United States. It is one of the most important commercial fishing ports in the country, making it economically significant despite its remote location in the Aleutian Islands.

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Official name: Unalaska
Population: 4254
Area: 550.79847
Elevation: 4
Official website: www.ci.unalaska.ak.us
Image: UnalaskaAlaska.jpg
Households: 18014
Dialing code: 907

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native label: Iluulux̂
Commons category: Unalaska, Alaska
postal code: 99685
water as percent of area: 47.4365
P8168: Tunja
inception: 1774-00-00
water area: 261.279455
per capita income: 8877
mean age: 37.0
date of incorporation: 1942-03-03
P12749: Zannichellia palustris

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The City of Unalaska (Aleut: Iluulux̂; Russian: Уналашка) is the main population center in the Aleutian Islands. The city is in the Aleutians West Census Area, a regional component of the Unorganized Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. Unalaska is located on Unalaska Island and neighboring Amaknak Island in the Aleutian Islands off mainland Alaska. The population was 4,254 at the 2020 census, which is 81% of the entire Aleutians West Census Area. Unalaska is the second-largest city in the Unorganized Borough, behind Bethel.

The Aleut (Unangan) people have lived on Unalaska Island for thousands of years. The Unangan, who were the first to inhabit the island of Unalaska, named it "Ounalashka", meaning "near the peninsula". The regional native corporation has adopted this moniker, and is known as the Ounalashka Corporation. The Russian fur trade reached Unalaska when Stepan Glotov and his crew arrived on August 1, 1759. Natives, Russians and their Alaskan Creole descendants comprised most of the community's population until the mid-20th century, when the involvement of the United States in World War II led to a large-scale influx of people and construction of buildings all along the strategically located Aleutians.