title: Nagai Island
text: # Nagai Island
  
  Nagai Island is one of the largest of the Shumagin Islands in the Gulf of Alaska, south of the Alaska Peninsula considered a part of the NE Aleutian Range. It is located in the United States state of Alaska at 55°05′N 160°01′W﻿ / ﻿55.083°N 160.017°W﻿ / 55.083; -160.017, and is 31 miles (50 km) long.
  
  According to the log of Vitus Bering's ship St. Peter, a sailor by the name of Nikita Shumagin died of scurvy and was buried here August 31, 1741. The Shumagin Islands were named after him.
  
  