Information About

Alexander Archipelago

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Alexander Archipelago on The Map

Location

56 ° 40' 0.001" N,
134 ° 4' 59.999" W

Region

Petersburg (CA)

Nearest City

Kake

Elevation

1493 ft (455.07 m)

Tributaries

Alberto Islands, Apple Islands, Babe Islands, Baranof Archipelago, Barlow Islands, Bay Islands, Blank Islands, Blanquizal Islands, The Brothers, Castle Islands, Diver Islands, Dome Islets, Eva Islands, Galankin Islands, Gaohi Islands, Gavanski Islands, George Islands, Ham Islands, Hazy Islands, Keku Islets, Kleiti Islands, Kussu Islands, Kutchuma Islands, Level Islands, Lively Islands, Lord Islands, Magoun Islands, Maurelle Islands, McFarland Islands, Muffin Islands, Necker Islands, Niblack Islands, Nichols Islands, Palmtree Islands, Percy Islands, Porcupine Islands, Porpoise Islands, Portage Islands, Prince of Wales Archipelago, Rakof Islands, Redcliff Islands, Redfish Islets, Round Islets, Saint Lazaria Islands, Sand Islands, Screen Islands, Spanish Islands, Sukkwan Island, Taigud Islands, Tatoosh Islands, Cove Mountain, Abalone Island, Abbess Island, Amelius Island, Anchor Island, Andersen Island, Annette Island, Arboles Island, Arguello Island, Avon Island, Back Island, Baird Island, Baker Island, Balandra Island, Barren Island, Barrie Island, Barrier Island, Battery Island, Beacon Island, Bean Island, Bear Bay Island, Beauclerc Island, Beavertail Island, Betton Island, Bibora Island, Big Rose Island, Big Saltery Island, Blake Island, Blanket Island, Blowdown Island, Brady Island, Chichagof Island, Coronation Island, Dark Island, Dead Island, Dead Pine Island, Deception Island, Deichman Island, Dell Island, Deuce Island, Devil Island, Diamond Island, Dippy Island, Divide Island, Dogfish Island, Dorn Island, Double Islands, Drag Island, Drug Island, Dry Island, Duck Islands, Duke Island, East Clump, East Sentinel Island, Easterly Island, The Eckholms, Edward Islands, Edwards Island, Elghi Island, Elkugu Island, Emily Island, Emmet Island, Emmons Island, Error Island, Eva Island, Exchange Island, Fair Island, Fankuda Islet, Fannie Island, Farm Island, Faust Island, Fifteenmile Island, Fillmore Island, Finger Islands, Fish Egg Island, Fish Islands, Fishhook Island, Fitz Island, Fivemile Island, Fleming Island, Flotsam Island, Fontaine Island, Foot Island, Forrester Island, Forss Island, Fort Islet, Found Island, Fox Rock, Fripo Island, Fritz Island, Fruit Island, Gagarin Island, Gain Island, Galankin Island, Gambier Island, Gannet Island, Garcia Island, Gas Rock, Gate Island, Gauge Island, Gauntlet Island, Gedney Island, Glagolm Island, Goat Island, Golf Island, Good Island, Gornoi Island, Gould Island, Gourd Island, Grace Island, Granite Islands, Grant Island, Grassy Rock, Graveyard Island, Greentop Island, Greys Island, Grief Island, Griffith Island, Grindall Island, Guard Islands, Guertin Island, Guibert Islets, Gull Islet, Halibut Island, Halleck Island, Hanus Islet, Harry Island, Hauti Island, Heceta Island, Hemlock Island, Herbert Graves Island, Hermagos Islands, Hermanos Islands, Hessa Island, Hidden Island, Highwater Island, Hill Island, Hogan Island, Hoggatt Island, Hoonah Island, Hoot Island, Hotspur Island, Hound Island, Hume Island, Ilput Island, Indiada Island, Japonski Island, Jarvis Island, Jewell Island, Joe Mace Island, Juneau Island, Kadin Island, Kah Sheets Island, Kaiuchali Island, Kakovo Island, Kamennoi Island, Kanagunut Island, Kane Islands, Kanga Island, Kasaan Island, Kasiana Islands, Kassa Island, Kassan Islands, Keene Island, Keete Island, Kelp Island, Keski Island, Killisnoo Island, Kinky Island, Kirushkin Island, Kishbrock Island, Kita Island, Kite Island, The Kittens, Klag Island, Klakas Island, Klinau Island, Kliuchevoi Island, Klokachef Island, Kluanil Island, Knob Island, Koka Island, Korga Island, Kosciusko Island, Krestof Island, Krishka Island, Kruzof Island, Kuiu Island, Labouchere Island, Lacey Island, Ladrones Islands, Lane Island, Larzatita Island, Lauf Islands, Ledge Island, Leo Island, Lewis Island, Line Island, Little Cedar Island, Little Dry Island, Little Hamilton Island, Little Rapids Island, Little Rose Island, Little Saltery Island, Little Wrangell Island, Lock Island, Lodge Island, Losa Island, Lowrie Island, Loy Island, Lulu Island, Lung Island, Madre de Dios Island, Makhnati Island, Makhnati Islands, Manzanita Island, Marabilla Island, Marble Island, Marble Islet, Marmion Island, Marsh Island, Marshall Island, Meadow Island, Menefee Islands, Mertz Island, Meyers Island, Mindalina Island, Miner Island, Minett Island, Minx Islands, Misery Island, Mite Island, Mitkof Island, Mogilnoi Island, Moira Island, Monte Carlo Island, Mosman Island, Moss Island, Muerta Island, Murdo Island, Muse Island, Mushroom Island, Myriad Islands, Natalia Island, Nellag Island, Neptune Island, Neva Island, Nevski Island, North Burnett Island, Noyes Island, Obsechki Island, Onslow Island, Orr Island, Osten Island, Otstoia Island, Owl Island, Palisade Island, Panhandle Island, Parida Island, Parker Group, Partofshikof Island, Passage Islands, Patterson Island, Paulina Island, Peacock Island, Peer Island, Peisar Island, Pen Island, Peratrovich Island, Petersen Islands, Piedras Island, Pigeon Island, Pine Island, Piper Island, Pitt Island, Pleasant Island, Pluma Island, Polk Island, Pond Island, Port Island, Post Island, Povorotni Island, Pow Island, Price Island, Prince Island, Prince of Wales Island, Pulizzi Island, Ralston Island, Ramp Island, Rancheria Island, Rapids Island, Rat Island, Read Island, Reef Islands, Reshimosti Island, Revillagigedo Island, Ridge Island, Ring Island, Roadstead Island, Romp Island, Rookery Island, Rosary Island, Rowe Island, Roy Island, Rudyerd Island, Rynda Island, Sachem Island, Saint Ignace Island, Saint Joseph Island, Saint Philip Island, San Adrian Island, San Clemente Island, San Fernando Island, San Francisco Island, San Island, San Juan Bautista Island, San Juan Islands, San Juanito Island, San Lorenzo Islands, Santa Rita Island, Sasedni Island, Scrag Islands, Scraggy Island, Scraggy Islands, Scrub Island, Scull Island, Seagull Island, Shakan Island, Shale Island, Shaman Island, Shaw Islands, Shelikof Island, Shingle Island, Shoe Island, Sholin Island, Shrub Islet, Sigh Islands, Siginaka Islands, Singa Island, Sinitsin Island, Sitklan Island, Skiff Island, Skin Island, Skinner Island, Skowl Island, Slaughter Island, Snip Islands, Sokolof Island, Sombrero Island, Sosnovoi Island, Sound Islands, South America Island, South Burnett Island, Southerly Island, Spanberg Island, Spasski Island, Spire Island, Split Island, Spook Island, Spuhn Island, Stack Island, Stanhope Island, Steep Island, Stevenson Island, Stone Islands, Stop Island, Strait Island, Streets Island, Suemez Island, Suhti Island, Sukoi Islets, Suloia Islet, Sumdum Island, Sumner Island, Sunset Island, Sunshine Island, Sushilna Island, Tah Island, Target Island, Teal Island, Tenass Island, Tentree Island, Terbilon Island, Thomas Island, Thorne Island, Three Hill Island, Three Islands, Three Tree Island, Tide Island, Tiedeman Island, Tikhaia Islands, Timbered Island, Tolstoi Island, Toti Island, Tree Island, Trim Island, Triplet Islands, Triste Island, Troller Islands, Trouble Island, Trunk Island, Turnabout Island, Turning Island, Tuxekan Island, Twin Island, Two Tree Island, Ubi Island, Ulinoi Island, Ulloa Island, Unishka Island, Unlucky Island, Vancouver Island, Vank Island, Vegas Islands, Village Island, Virublennoi Island, Vitskari Island, Vixen Islands, Volga Island, Vorota Island, Wadleigh Island, Walker Island, Warburton Island, Warren Island, Wedge Islands, Westerly Island, Whale Head Island, White Cliff Island, White Crag Island, White Sisters, Whiterock Island, Wilson Islands, Windfall Island, Windfall Islands, The Witnesses, Woewodski Island, Wooden Island, Woronkofski Island, Yakobi Island, Yamani Islets, Yasha Island, Yellow Rocks, Zarembo Island, Zimovia Islets, Bautista Peak, Bear Pass Mountain, Beauclerc Peak, Bessie Peak, Betton Head, Between Mountain, Big Chief Mountain, Billie Mountain, Brownson Peak, Buck Mountain, Bush Mountain, El Capitan Peak, Chapeau Mountain, Chenango Mountain, Chipp Peak, Clover Mountain, Crag Mountain, Cross Mountain, Twin Rift, Bohemian Range, Alava Ridge, Crater Ridge,

Alexander Archipelago in Detail.

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Incomplete record - should be at least 139 maps, LATLONGs truncated in PH I by GIPSY - 9511. Island group in SE Alaska, extends S from Cross Sound and Icy Strait to Dixon Entrance. 280 miles long.

Alexander Archipelago is a large group of islands in Southeast Alaska. It makes up a large portion of the Alaska panhandle and run parallel to the Coast Mountains of the mainland. The islands are covered with temperate rainforests consisting largely of western hemlock, and Sitka spruce. Logging used to be a major industry for this reason and still plays a large impact but is steadily declining. Today's major businesses are fishing and tourism.

Alexander Archipelago is also famous for the much debated Alexander Archipelago Wolf.

History

Named in 1867 by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) for Tsar Alexander of Russia. See King George the Third Archipelago.

Related Places
Alava Ridge, Crater Ridge,