Hot Spring On Amagat Island
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Amagat Island holds a hot spring that the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge lists among its hot-water sites. Getting to the island is the whole problem; Sand Point, the nearest town on file, is about a hundred miles off. Once ashore the spring is a short walk, a few hundred feet from an old military track. The temperature was never measured for this record, only classed as hot. Access is restricted.
The nearest road is logged as a World War II US Army jeep trail, and the spring lies close enough to it to fall in the short-walk class. Refuge land, US Fish and Wildlife Service, in the Aleutians East Borough. The spot sits a few hundred feet above the sea. Weather is maritime, mild and wet, with an average around forty degrees and snow that comes in under five feet most years.
No season guidance on record. Restricted refuge access means contacting the Alaska Maritime refuge before going, and the island itself has no campground or fee on file. With no temperature reading, treat any soaking as untested. The jeep trail is the only route named, and the record says nothing about its condition.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Canyon floor
- Steep ground climbs away on both sides of the spring.
- Highest ground nearby
- 534 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the south
A slice through the ground from northwest to southeast, about 0.6 miles end to end.
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.
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