The second largest island in the United States, after Hawaii.

Archipelago — the chain of islands surrounding Kodiak. Major islands include:

Afognak, Shuyak, Spruce, Woody, Long, Near, Sitkinak.

City of Kodiak, Kodiak City, Kodiak City Council, (though council when standing alone).

Kodiak Island Borough (borough when standing alone)

Kodiak Island Borough Assembly (assembly when standing alone)

Kodiak Island Borough School District (district when standing alone)

Kodiak Island Borough School Board (or Board of Education) (school board when standing alone).

Don’t say city or borough when you mean the council or the assembly, or vice versa.

3 major city docks:

Pier 1 at Marine Way and Center Avenue is home to the offices of the Alaska Marine Highway, Kodiak Chamber of Commerce and Kodiak Island Convention and Visitors Bureau. It is where the state ferry Tustumena docks. Ferry dock is acceptable on second reference.

Pier 2 on Shelikof Street. Many larger fishing boats stage here. Also where the state ferry Kennicott and most cruise ships dock. City Dock is acceptable on second reference.

Pier 3, on Rezanof Drive is the container cargo dock, leased to and operated by Horizon Lines.

Other city docks include the snow dock (where snow plowed from streets is dumped into the Near Island Channel), the water dock, a short term floating dock for medium to smaller boats, both on the spit, and Oscar’s Dock inside Saint Paul Harbor. Also the Transient Float Dock, on Marine Way. There is also the tidal grid in Saint Paul Harbor. Boats float over it on high tides, then tie up. Once the tide goes put, the boat sits out of the water on a wooden grid, allowing the hull to be worked on.