Derby Point

On the southwestern coast of Umnak Island, a rounded headland projects into the North Pacific. Its rocky shore lies within the long Aleutian chain, home to Unangan communities whose hunters travelled by skin-covered boat. In 1759 the Russian trader Stepan Glotov and his companions came to Umnak and neighbouring Unalaska, spending two years in the islands as the maritime fur trade expanded east from Kamchatka.