Ikatan, Alaska

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Ikatan village was established around a salmon cannery that was built in 1917.  This cannery was built by Pacific American Fisheries (PAF) out of Bellingham, Washington.  PAF had other canneries in the area at King Cove, Shumagin Islands and Port Moller.  It turned out that the location chosen for the cannery offered no protection from strong northerly winds that are frequent in this area. Since the cannery boats could not be protected adequately, the cannery was eventually closed in 1934. 
The last residents to live in Ikatan were the George Kochuten family and they moved away in the early 1960s, leaving the village abandoned. The old cannery site property is now in private hands. unimak.us/ikatan.shtml
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Coordinates:   54°45'2"N   163°18'55"W
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