🏝️ Nizki Island

Nizki Island is an uninhabited island in the Aleutian Islands in the U.S. state of Alaska. Located at 52°44′28″N 173°59′08″E, it is the middle island of the Semichi Islands group of the Near Islands. Flanked by Shemya to the east and Alaid to the west, three-mile-long (5 km) Nizki is periodically joined to Alaid by a sand spit. The name derived from the Russian word nizkiy, meaning "low," a term descriptive of the island's topography, with a maximum elevation of 165 ft (50 m). Nizki's shoreline is irregular and is fringed by rocks, reefs, and kelp-marked shoals.