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Infested with norway rats after a Japanese ship wrecked on the island 200 years ago, Rat island was the target of an effort in 2006 to poison all the rats in order to restore the native bird population.
The program was successful, and Rat Island no longer houses the rats it is named for.
www.livescience.com/strangenews/etc/090613-rat-island-m...
www.defenders.org/newsroom/defenders_magazine/winter_20...
The program was successful, and Rat Island no longer houses the rats it is named for.
www.livescience.com/strangenews/etc/090613-rat-island-m...
www.defenders.org/newsroom/defenders_magazine/winter_20...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Island,_Alaska
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Coordinates: 51°48'0"N 178°17'38"E
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- Amchitka Island 27 km
- Segula Island 31 km
- Kiska Island 84 km
- Semisopochnoi Island 85 km
- Buldir Island 178 km
- Agattu Island, Alaska 347 km
- Attu Island, Alaska 419 km
- Medny (Copper) Island 797 km
- Bering Island 915 km
- Segula Volcano 27 km
- Shore Bombardment Craters 54 km
- East Kiska Lake 56 km
- Kiska Volcano 58 km
- Jeff Cove 58 km
- West Kiska Lake 59 km
- Japanese Garrison on Kiska 60 km
- Gertrude Cove 60 km
- AN/TPS-71 Relocatable Over-the-Horizon Radar (ROTHR) Receiver (site) 70 km
- Semisopochnoi Volcano 92 km