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Halibut Point

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Halibut Point on The Map

Location

57 ° 5' 57.998" N,
135 ° 23' 48.001" W

Region

Sitka

Nearest City

Sitka

Elevation

36 ft (10.97 m)

Halibut Point in Detail.

About

4 mi. NW of Sitka, on NW coast of Baranof I., Alex. Arch.

History

This is an 1882 translation by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) of the name given in 1809 by the Russian navigator Ivan Vasiliev the first, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN); reported by Lieutenant Sarichev (1826, map 19), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as "M(ys) Paltusey." The name "Mys Peschanyy," meaning "Sandy Cape," was published for this point in 1848 by the Russian Hydrographic Dept. on Chart 1397.

Birds Sighted Here

Sorted by Most Common to Least Common Viewings

Surfbird, Black Turnstone, Mallard, American Crow, Eurasian Collared Dove, Surf Scoter, Aleutian Cackling Goose, Short-billed Dowitcher, Common Gull, Glaucous-winged Gull, Tree Swallow, Green-winged Teal, Greater White-fronted Goose, Greater Scaup, Black Scoter, Anna's Hummingbird, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Canada Goose, American Wigeon, Northern Pintail, Bufflehead, Horned Grebe, Black Oystercatcher, Pectoral Sandpiper, Marbled Murrelet, Black-legged Kittiwake, Herring Gull, Red-throated Loon, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Pacific Wren, Varied Thrush, Northern Shoveler, Harlequin Duck, Long-tailed Duck, Common Goldeneye, Western Grebe, Hudsonian Godwit, Marbled Godwit, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Long-billed Dowitcher, Pacific Loon, Pelagic Cormorant, Barn Swallow, Brown Creeper, Common Starling, Swainson's Thrush, Dark-eyed Junco, Snow Goose, Wood Duck, White-winged Scoter, Common Merganser, Red-breasted Merganser, Red-necked Grebe, Rufous Hummingbird, Black-bellied Plover, Semipalmated Plover, Killdeer, Whimbrel, Dunlin, Least Sandpiper, Spotted Sandpiper, Solitary Sandpiper, Wandering Tattler, Greater Yellowlegs, Common Murre, Pigeon Guillemot, Bonaparte's Gull, Common Loon, Fork-tailed Storm-petrel, Leach's Storm-petrel, Sooty Shearwater, Double-crested Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Northern Goshawk, Bald Eagle, Red-tailed Hawk, Western Screech-Owl, Belted Kingfisher, Red-breasted Sapsucker, Hairy Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Pacific-slope Flycatcher, Tropical Kingbird, Steller's Jay, Common Raven, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, American Dipper, Hermit Thrush, American Robin, Buff-bellied Pipit, Pine Siskin, American Tree Sparrow, Fox Sparrow, Golden-crowned Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Lincoln's Sparrow, Orange-crowned Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Townsend's Warbler, Black-headed Grosbeak, Rock Pigeon

Places Near Halibut Point
Cities:

Fort Saint Michael, The Redoubt,

Archipelagos:

Apple Islands, Gavanski Islands, Gillmore Islands, Kutchuma Islands, Magoun Islands, Taigud Islands,

Areas:

Old Sitka Rocks, Sawmill Creek Recreational Area,

Bars:

Alexander Rock, Alice Island, Bare Rock, Black Rock, Channel Rock, Columbine Rock, Ferebee Rock, Frosty Reef, Harbor Rock, Keene Rock, Liar Rocks, Makhnati Rock, Mitchell Rock, Nicholson Rocks, Rocky Patch, Rose Rock, Sentinel Rock, Shoal Island, Simpson Rock, Tsaritsa Rock, Usher Rock, Vasilief Bank, Wyvill Reef,

Basins:

Billy Basin,

Bays:

Port Krestof, Aleutkina Bay, Birdsnest Bay, Camp Coogan Bay, Cedar Cove, Crab Bay, Crescent Bay, Deep Inlet, DeGroff Bay, Eastern Bay, Herring Cove, Jamestown Bay, Kanga Bay, Katlian Bay, Kidney Cove, Krestof Sound, Leesoffskaia Bay, Mielkoi Cove, Mud Bay, Nakwasina Bay, Nakwasina Sound, No Thorofare Bay, Pirate Cove, Promisla Bay, Redoubt Bay, Saint John Baptist Bay, Samsing Cove, Sandy Cove, Sawmill Cove, Sealing Cove, Sitka Harbor, Sitka Sound, Starrigavan Bay, Thimbleberry Bay, Thomsen Harbor, Three Entrance Bay, Whitestone Cove, Whiting Harbor,

Capes:

Point Brown, Allan Point, Cape Burunof, Creek Point, Dog Point, Eastern Point, Entry Point, Escape Cape, Halibut Point, Halleck Point, Harbor Point, Inner Point, Kamenoi Point, Kresta Point, Krugloi Point, Lisianski Peninsula, Lisianski Point, Mountain Point, Neva Point, Olga Point, Partof Point, Povorotni Point, Rob Point, Silver Point, Watson Point, Whitestone Point, Zeal Point,

Channels:

East Channel Hayward Strait, Eastern Channel, Hayward Strait, Islet Passage, Koka Island Passage, Middle Channel, Nakwasina Passage, Neva Strait, Olga Strait, West Channel Hayward Strait, Western Channel, Whitestone Narrows,

Cities:

Sitka,

Dams:

Blue Lake Dam, Cascade Creek Dam, Indian River Dam, Sheldon Jackson College Dam,

Fictional Places:

Port Anna,

Hills:

Castle Hill,

Islands:

Aleutski Island, Ball Islets, Bamdoroshni Island, Bare Island, Bart Island, Battery Island, Beardslee Islands, Beehive Island, Belknap Islands, Berry Island, Bieli Rocks, Big Gavanski Island, Boidarkin Island, Border Rocks, Brady Island, Breast Island, Calming Island, Cannon Island, Caution Island, Chaichei Islands, Charcoal Island, Cobb Island, Crosswise Islands, Crow Island, Double Island, Dove Island, The Eckholms, Emgeten Island, Entrance Island, Error Island, Fankuda Islet, Fassett Island, Fritz Island, Fruit Island, Fruit Islands, Gagarin Island, Galankin Island, Glagolm Island, Gold Island, Gold Island, Griffith Island, Guertin Island, Guide Island, Gull Islet, Halleck Island, Harbor Island, Harris Island, Highwater Island, Ilput Island, Japonski Island, Kamennoi Island, Kanga Island, Kasiana Islands, Katz Island, Kayak Islands, Kirushkin Island, Kita Island, Koka Island, Korga Island, Krestof Island, Kulichkof Rock, Kutkan Island, Limit Island, Line Island, Little Gavanski Island, Long Island, Love Island, Low Island, Luce Island, Makhnati Island, Marshall Island, Martin Island, McClellan Group, Mertz Island, Middle Island, Mills Island, Minett Island, Mogilnoi Island, Morne Island, Nadezhda Islands, Nepovorotni Rocks, Neva Island, Nevski Island, Obsechki Island, Parker Group, Passage Islands, Peisar Island, Pritchard Rock, Rashimosti Island, Ring Island, Road Island, Rockwell Island, Rockwell Island, Round Island, Sasedni Island, Sheep Island, Siginaka Islands, Signal Island, Smith Island, Sosnovoi Island, Sound Islands, Stewart Island, Stewart Island, Surf Rock, Taigud Island, Turning Island, The Twins, Ulinoi Island, Unishka Island, Virublennoi Island, Vitskari Island, Vitskari Rocks, Volga Island, Whale Island, Whitestone Rock, Zenobia Rock,

Lakes:

Beaver Lake, Cold Storage Lake, Heart Lake, Redoubt Lake, Swan Lake, Thimbleberry Lake,

Mountains:

Annahootz Mountain, Arrowhead Peak, Cross Mountain, Mount Dranishnikof, Harbor Peak, Mount Katlian, Mount Kinkaid, Krestof Mountain, Mount Longenbaugh, Mount Rosenberg, Sugarloaf Mountain, Mount Verstovia,

Parks:

Magoun Islands State Marine Park,

Mountain Passes:

Ellsworth Cut, Western Anchorage,

Mountain Ranges:

The Pyramids, The Sisters,

Ridges:

Gavan Hill,

Rivers:

Coxe River, Dranishnikov River, Indian River, Katlian River,

Streams:

Cascade Creek, Freds Creek, Granite Creek, Kizhuchia Creek, Peterson Creek, Sawmill Creek, Starrigavan Creek,

Routes:

Mount Verstovia Trail, Gavan Hill Trail, Harbor Mountain - Gavan Hill Trail, Herring Cove Trail, Indian River Trail, Sitka Cross Trail, Sitka’s Cross Trail, Starrigavan Fish Viewing Trail,