The island was used as a place to gather currants, harvest seals and as a fort location.
Dall, after William Le Mesurier (1767–1833), a midshipman on HMS Chatham.
[2] It has a land area of 27.534 km2 ( 10.631 sq mi) and reported a population of one person in the 2000 census.
Together with Pleasant Island and the Inian Islands, it forms the Pleasant/Lemesurier/Inian Islands Wilderness,[3] a wilderness area within Tongass National Forest that has been officially designated by the National Wilderness Preservation System.
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