Evans Island is an island in the Prince William Sound of southern Alaska . It lies just east of Bainbridge Island across the Prince of Wales Passage . Elrington Island lies to its south , Latouche Island to its southeast , and Knight Island to its northeast . Although Evans Island had been inhabited up to the time of the Russian exploration of Alaska , the island had no modern-day inhabitants until 1984 , when a group of residents and former residents of the original Alutiq village of Chenega , on Chenega Island , decided to build the village of Chenega Bay on Crab Bay on Evans Island . Old Chenega had been destroyed and one-third of its residents had been killed by the tsunami from the 1964 Alaska earthquake . The new community of Chenega is coextensive with Evans Island , which has a land area of 74.605 km ² ( 28.805 sq mi ) and a population of 86 persons as of the 2000 census
1964 Alaska earthquake
1964 Alaska earthquake
Evans Island