Nunamiut
A historical populated place in Kodiak Island County, Alaska, recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System.
Location Record
Names and historical notes
Recorded by GNIS. Source wording is retained; these notes have not been independently verified by Forgotten America.
GNIS description
on W shore of Three Saints Bay, on SE coast of Kodiak I.
GNIS historical note
Former Eskimo village name meaning land people, published as Nunochogamute, population 160, in the 10th Census (1884, p. 11). Early Russian sources included this village in thier descriptions of the settlement 1.5 miles to the southeast established by Shelikov in 1784. See Three Saints Harbor, locality.
Also recorded as
- Nunjagmut
- Nunochogamute
- Old Harbor
- Starri-gavan
- Staruigavan
- Ziatitz
Source editions and recorded citations
Feature ID 1407337. Description/History extract: August 28, 2026. All Names extract: September 30, 2026. Retrieved October 22, 2026. Only populated fields are displayed.
GNIS citation text may identify a source series rather than a specific page. It is reproduced below without implying that its underlying documents were inspected.
- Map U.S. Geological Survey 1981-12-31 00:00:00 Geographic Names Phase I data compilation (1976-1981) Primarily from U.S. Geological Survey 1:24,000-scale topographic maps (or 1:25K, Puerto Rico 1:20K) and from U.S. Board on Geographic Names files.
- Text Orth, Donald J. Dictionary of Alaska Place Names. Washington, DC: GPO, 1967. This work is an alphabetical list of the geographic names generally including feature descriptions and often name origin information that are now applied and have been applied to places and features in Alaska. GNIS Library.
Source: U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), Historical Features.