كيسكا

For other uses, see كيسكا (توضيح).

كيسكا
Kiska

Native name: Qisxa
خريطة طبوغرافية لكيسكا
كيسكا كيسكا ضمن ألاسكا كيسكا كيسكا في المحيط الهادي
الجغرافيا
الإحداثيات	51°57′51″N 177°27′36″E
الأرخبيل	مجموعة جزر الفئران ضمن جزر ألوشن
المساحة	107.22 sq mi (277.7 km2)
الطول	22 mi (35 km)
العرض	1٫5 mi (2٫4 km) - 6 mi (10 km)
أعلى منسوب	4٬004 ft (1٬220٫4 m)
أعلى نقطة	بركان كيسكا
الإدارة
الولايات المتحدة
الولاية	ألاسكا
Census Area	Aleutians West Census Area
السكان
التعداد	0 (2010)

خريطة غرب جزر ألوشن. كيسكا هي الجزيرة #7؛ جزيرة أتو تظهر كالجزيرة #1.

كيسكا ( Kiska ؛ ألوت: Qisxa, روسية: Кыска) هي واحدة من جزر الفئران، التي هي مجموعة ضمن جزر ألوشن في ألاسكا. ويبلغ طولها نحو 22 miles (35 km) ويتراوح عرضها من 1.5 to 6 miles (2.4 to 9.7 km). وهي جزء من Aleutian Islands Wilderness and as such, special permission is required to visit it. The island has no permanent population.

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 التاريخ

 الاكتشاف الأوروپي (1741)

في 1741 بينما هو عائد من رحلته البحرية الثانية في التجريدة الشمالية الكبرى، قام المستكشف الروسي الدنماركي المولد ڤيتوس بيرنگ بأول اكتشاف أوروبي لمعظم جزر ألوشن، بما فيهن كيسكا. گيورگ ڤلهلم شتلر، عالم الطبيعيات-الطبيب على متن سفينة بيرنگ، كتب:

في 25 أكتوبر 1741 كانت السماء صافية والشمس مشرقة، وبالرغم من سقوط البرَد بين الفينة والأخرى بعد الظهر. فوجئنا في الصباح باكتشافنا جزيرة طويلة كبيرة عند 51° to the north of us.

Prior to European contact, Kiska Island had been densely populated by native peoples for thousands of years.

 بعد الاكتشاف (1741–1939)

Kiska, and the other Rat Islands, were reached by independent Russian traders in the 1750s. After the initial exploitation of the sea otter population, Russians rarely visited the island as interest shifted further east. Years would frequently pass without a single ship landing.

Starting in 1775, Kiska, the Aleutian Islands, and mainland Alaska became fur trading outposts for the Russian-American Company managed by Grigory Shelekhov.

In 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska with the Russian Empire. Kiska was included in the purchase.

 الحرب العالمية الثانية (1939–1945)

انظر أيضاً: Operation Cottage, Aleutian Islands campaign, and Japanese occupation of Kiska

The Allied invasion of Kiska, August 15, 1943

As one of the only two invasions of the United States during World War II, the Japanese No. 3 Special Landing Party and 500 marines went ashore at Kiska on June 6, 1942, as a separate campaign concurrent with the Japanese plan for the Battle of Midway. The Japanese captured the sole inhabitants of the island: a small United States Navy Weather Detachment consisting of ten men, including a lieutenant, along with their dog. (One member of the detachment escaped for 50 days. Starving, thin, and extremely cold, he eventually surrendered to the Japanese.) The next day the Japanese captured Attu Island.

The military importance of this frozen, difficult-to-supply island was questionable, but the psychological impact upon the Americans of losing U.S. soil to a foreign enemy for the first time since the War of 1812 was tangible. During the winter of 1942–43, the Japanese reinforced and fortified the islands—not necessarily to prepare for an island-hopping operation across the Aleutians, but to prevent a U.S. operation across the Kuril Islands. The U.S. Navy began operations to deny Kiska supply which would lead to the Battle of the Komandorski Islands. During October 1942, American forces undertook seven bombing missions over Kiska, though two were aborted due to weather. Following the winter, Attu was recaptured, and bombing of Kiska resumed until a larger American force was allocated to defeat the expected Japanese garrison of 5,200 men.

The Japanese, aware of the loss of Attu and the impending arrival of the larger Allied force, successfully removed their troops on July 28 under the cover of fog, without being detected by the Allies.

On August 15, 1943, an invasion force consisting of 34,426 Allied troops, including elements of the 7th Infantry Division, 4th Infantry Regiment, 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment, 5,300 Canadians (mainly the 13th Canadian Infantry Brigade from the 6th Infantry Division, with supporting units including two artillery units from the 7th Infantry Division, 95 ships including three battleships and a heavy cruiser, and 168 aircraft landed on Kiska, only to find the island completely abandoned.

Despite the lack of Japanese presence, Allied casualties during this invasion nevertheless numbered close to 200, either from bad weather, Japanese booby traps or friendly fire. As a result of the brief "friendly fire" engagement between U.S. and Canadian forces, 28 American and four Canadian were killed. There were an additional 130 casualties from trench foot. The destroyer USS Abner Read hit a mine, resulting in 87 casualties.

That night the Imperial Japanese Navy warships, thinking they were engaged by Americans, shelled and attempted to torpedo the island of Little Kiska where the Japanese soldiers were waiting to embark. Admiral Ernest King reported to the secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox, that the only things that remained on the island were dogs and freshly brewed coffee. Knox asked for an explanation and King responded, "The Japanese are very clever. Their dogs can brew coffee."

 منذ الحرب العالمية الثانية

The Japanese occupation site on the island is now a National Historic Landmark and part of Aleutian Islands World War II National Monument. The island is also a part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (AMNWR) and contains the largest colony of least auklets (over 1,160,000 birds) and crested auklets. Research biologists from Memorial University of Newfoundland have been studying the impact of introduced Norway rats on the seabirds of Kiska since 2001.

Much of the aftermath of World War II is still evident in Kiska. The slow erosion processes on the tundra have had little effect on the bomb craters still visible both from the ground and in satellite images on the hills surrounding the harbor. Numerous equipment dumps, tunnels (some concrete-lined), Japanese gun emplacements, shipwrecks, and other war relics can be found, all untouched since 1943.

In 1983, a memorial plaque was placed on Kiska by the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment, inscribed:

To the men of Amphibious Task Force 9 who fell here August 1943 placed here August 1983 by 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment.

On August 22, 2007, the submarine يوإس‌إس Grunion, which disappeared with a crew of 70 during World War II, was found in 1,000 metres (3,281 ft) of water off Kiska.

 في الأعمال الخيالية

Renamed "Skira", the island was used as the setting for the Codemasters video game Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising. The fictionalized version of the island is relocated closer to Russia and China, but the island's topography is replicated near-exactly, with elements of the game designed around it, instead of vice versa.

 بركان كيسكا

بركان كيسكا

Kiska Volcano (Qisxan Kamgii in Aleut) is an active stratovolcano, 5.3 by 4.0 mi (8.5 by 6.4 km) in diameter at its base and 4,006 feet (1,221 m) high, located on the northern end of Kiska Island.

On January 24, 1962, an explosive eruption occurred, accompanied by lava extrusion and the construction of a cinder cone about 98 feet (30 m) high at Sirius Point on the north flank of Kiska Volcano, 1.9 miles (3.1 km) from the summit of the main cone (Anchorage Daily News, January 30, 1962). A second eruption that produced a lava flow was reported to have occurred on March 18, 1964 (Bulletin of Volcanic Eruptions, 1964).

Since then, the volcano has emitted steam and ash plumes, as well as smaller lava flows.

 انظر أيضاً

• List of mountain peaks of North America
  • List of mountain peaks of the United States
    • List of mountain peaks of Alaska
• List of volcanoes in the United States
• Report from the Aleutians, a 1943 documentary about the bombing of Kiska during World War II

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 وصلات خارجية

• Kiska Volcano
• Shipwrecks around Kiska
• The Kiska Memorial
• The Aleutians Campaign
• Library of Congress link
• Alaska Volcano Observatory
• Soldiers of the 184th Infantry, 7th ID in the Pacific, 1943–1945
• Long-term study of the impact of introduced rats on the seabirds (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
• A picture gallery from the journey to locate the U.S. World War II submarine "Grunion" sunk near Kiska
• Photos from Kiska Island, July 2008