Information About

Krestof Sound

Quick Facts

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Location

57 ° 12' 22" N,
135 ° 34' 40.001" W

Region

Sitka

Nearest City

Sitka

Krestof Sound in Detail.

About

3 mi. N of Sitka Sound, off NW coast of Baranof I., Alex. Arch. 4 miles wide.

History

Name meaning "cross," given in 1833 by the navigator Ensign Vasiliev; published in 1848 as "Pro(oliv) Krestovskiy" on Russian Hydrographic Dept. 1397. See Hayward Strait Olga Strait.

Places Near Krestof Sound
Cities:

Fort Saint Michael,

Archipelagos:

Apple Islands, Gavanski Islands, Magoun Islands,

Areas:

Iris Meadows, Old Sitka Rocks,

Bars:

Bare Rock, Black Rock, Brad Rock, Channel Rock, Channel Rocks, Columbine Rock, E Francis Rock, Kakul Rock, Keene Rock, Makhnati Rock, Midway Rock, Nicholson Rocks, Sentinel Rock, Usher Rock, Wayanda Ledge, Wyvill Reef,

Bays:

Port Krestof, Port Mary, Bear Bay, Bradshaw Cove, Crab Bay, Cuvacan Cove, DeGroff Bay, Eastern Bay, Fish Bay, Gilmer Cove, Haley Anchorage, Kalinin Bay, Krestof Sound, Krestof Sound, Launch Cove, Liesnoi Shoal, Louise Cove, Mud Bay, Nakwasina Sound, Promisla Bay, Saint John Baptist Bay, Salisbury Sound, Salmonberry Cove, Schulze Cove, Sinitsin Cove, Starrigavan Bay, Sukoi Inlet, Sukoi Inlet, Sukon Strait, Suloia Bay, Whitestone Cove, Whiting Harbor,

Capes:

Point Sinbad, Point Siroi, Point Brown, Point Kakul, Allan Point, Creek Point, Dog Point, Eastern Point, Escape Cape, Fish Point, Haley Point, Halibut Point, Halleck Point, Harbor Point, Hayward Point, Inner Point, Island Point, Kamenoi Point, Kresta Point, Krugloi Point, Lisianski Peninsula, Lisianski Point, Mountain Head, Mountain Point, Near Point, Neva Point, Olga Point, Partof Point, Pinta Head, Range Point, Rob Point, Schulze Head, Scraggy Point, Sergius Point, Shoal Point, Shoals Point, Struya Point, Sukoi Point, Suloia Point, Watson Point, Whitestone Point, Zeal Point,

Channels:

Canoe Pass, East Channel Hayward Strait, Hayward Strait, Kakul Narrows, Nakwasina Passage, Neva Strait, Olga Strait, Sergins Narrows, Sergius Channel, West Channel Hayward Strait, Western Channel, Whitestone Narrows,

Islands:

Bare Island, Bart Island, Battery Island, Beehive Island, Bieli Rocks, Big Gavanski Island, Border Rocks, Brady Island, Chaichei Islands, Crosswise Islands, Crow Island, Double Island, East Francis Rock, Entrance Island, Gagarin Island, Gold Island, Gold Island, Goloi Island, Goloi Islands, Guide Island, Haley Rocks, Halleck Island, Highwater Island, Kane Islands, Kasiana Islands, Kirushkin Island, Krestof Island, Krugloi Islands, Kruzof Island, Kulichkof Rock, Lava Island, Liesnoi Island, Liesnoi Island, Limit Island, Line Island, Little Gavanski Island, Little Rapids Island, Low Island, Makhnati Island, Middle Island, Mills Island, Mogilnoi Island, Nadezhda Islands, Nepovorotni Rocks, Neva Island, Nevski Island, Parker Group, Partofshikof Island, Passage Islands, Piper Island, Prolewy Rock, Rapids Island, Rashimosti Island, Round Island, Sasedni Island, Scraggy Islands, Siginaka Islands, Signal Island, Sinitsin Island, Smith Island, Sound Islands, Stewart Island, Suloia Islet, Suloia Rock, Surf Rock, Virublennoi Island, Vitskari Island, Vitskari Rocks, W Francis Rock, West Francis Rock, Whitestone Rock, Zenobia Rock,

Lakes:

Lake Suloia,

Mountains:

Mount Edgecumbe, Krestof Mountain, Shell Mountain,

Parks:

Magoun Islands State Marine Park,

Mountain Passes:

Sergius Narrows, Western Anchorage,

Rapids:

Southern Rapids,

Ridges:

Crater Ridge,

Streams:

Cascade Creek, Fish Bay Creek, Freds Creek, Granite Creek, Starrigavan Creek,

Routes:

Kruzof Island Trail, Mount Edgecumbe Trail, Sitka Cross Trail, Sitka’s Cross Trail,