The stratovolcano rises about 6,000 ft (1,800 m) from the seabed, but the summit is the only part that projects above sea level.

[5] About 2,000 feet (610 m) northwest of Bogoslof, a small volcanic dome emerged in 1883 from the same stratovolcano and has become a stack rock formation known as Fire Island.

An estimated 90,000 tufted puffins, guillemots, red-legged kittiwakes and gulls nest here.

Together, as the Bogoslof Wilderness, they are currently part of the Aleutian Islands unit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.

[7] The Bogoslof Island group was added to the National Wilderness Preservation System in 1970.