Akutan Island
Mount Akutan volcano is located on the island, which had a major lava eruption in 1979.A significant geothermal area is located on the island including the Akutan Hot Springs.Pyotr Krenitsyn and Mikhail Levashev in 1768, and spelled Acootan by James Cook in 1778.This name may be from the Aleut word "hakuta" which, according to R. H. Geoghegan, means "I made a mistake."[citation needed] The Akutan Zero, a Japanese Zero, was named for the island after it crashed there during World War II and was recovered by the United States military.
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