Aleutsky District (Russian: Алеу́тский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district of Kamchatka Krai, Russia, one of the eleven in the krai. It is located to the east of the Kamchatka Peninsula on the Commander Islands. The area of the district is 1,580 square kilometers (610 sq mi). The islands consist of Bering Island, Medny Island and fifteen much smaller ones, the largest of which are Tufted Puffin Rock, 15 hectares, and Kamen Ariy, which are between 3 km and 13 km west of the only settlement, Nikolskoye. Its administrative center is the rural locality of Nikolskoye.
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Tufted Puffin Rock in the context of Commander Islands
55°00′N 166°24′E / 55.00°N 166.40°E
The Commander Islands, Komandorski Islands, or Komandorskie Islands (Russian: Командо́рские острова́, Komandorskiye ostrova) are a series of islands in the Russian Far East, a part of the Aleutian Islands, located about 175 km (109 mi) east of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Bering Sea. Treeless and sparsely populated, the islands consist of Bering Island, 95 by 15 km (59 by 9 mi); Medny Island, 55 by 5 km (34 by 3 mi); and fifteen islets and rocks. The largest of the latter are Tufted Puffin Rock (Kamen Toporkov or Ostrov Toporkov), 15 ha (37 acres), and Kamen Ariy, which are between 3 and 13 km (2 and 8 mi) west of the only settlement, Nikolskoye. Administratively, the Commanders compose the Aleutsky District of the Kamchatka Krai in Russia.
Tufted Puffin Rock in the context of Kamen Ariy
Kamen Ariy (Russian: Камень Арий), or Ary Rock, is an uninhabited islet of the Commander Islands in the North Pacific Ocean, east of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Eastern Russia. These islands belong to the Kamchatka Krai of the Russian Federation. Described as "craggy" by Encyclopædia Britannica, Kamen Ariy is about 8 kilometres (5 miles) west of Tufted Puffin Rock and consists of two rocks. The northern rock is pointed and reaches a height of 45 m (150 ft). The southern rock is much flatter and only reaches a height of 2.1 metres (6 feet 11 inches).
The islands were first named as Novy Island (Новый) by naval officer Otto von Kotzebue in 1824. Three years later, the islet was visited by explorer Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke and was named Sivuchy (Сивучьим). It was finally named Ariy in 1848 due to the amount of macaws (Russian: ара) that took rest on the islet. Since 1883, the rock was designated as such on maps according to the Toponymic Dictionary of the North-East of the USSR. As part of the Commander Islands, its temperature averages 10 °C (50 °F) in August and −4 °C (25 °F) in February. The islet's precipitation averages about 500 centimetres (200 inches) each year.