Information About

Snipe Head

Quick Facts

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Location

56 ° 25' 26" N,
134 ° 57' 33.001" W

Region

Sitka

Nearest City

Elevation

610 ft (185.93 m)

Snipe Head in Detail.

About

W point of entrance to Snipe Bay, 16.8 mi. NW of village of Port Alexander, on S coast of Baranof I., Alex. Arch.

History

Named by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) for charting purposes; name published in the 1925 Coast Pilot (p. 281).

Topo Maps

Port Alexander (1951), Port Alexander (1951), Port Alexander (1951), Port Alexander (1951), Port Alexander (1951), Port Alexander B-3 and B-4 (1951), Port Alexander B-3 and B-4 (1951), Port Alexander B-3 and B-4 (1951), Port Alexander (1952), Port Alexander (1952), Port Alexander (1952), Port Alexander B-3 NW (2017),

Places Near Snipe Head

Archipelagos:

Redfish Islets,

Bars:

Fivefathom Patch, Redfish Breaker, Reef Shoal, Tenfathom Anchorage,

Basins:

Bays:

Port Banks, Big Branch Bay, Branch Bay, Byron Bay, Close Bay, Driftwood Cove, Great Arm Whale Bay, Little Branch Bay, Little Puffin Bay, Puffin Bay, Rakovoi Bay, Redfish Bay, Sandy Bay, Snipe Bay, Still Harbor, Whale Bay,

Capes:

Point Lauder, Finger Point, Granite Point, Kekur Peninsula, Kekur Point, Mussel Point, North Cape, Overhang Point, Puffin Point, Redfish Cape, Redfish Point,

Channels:

First Narrows, Second Narrows,

Hills:

Islands:

Beavertail Island, Big Branch Rock, Bush Rock, First Kekur, Kakovo Island, Krishka Island, Makhnati Islands, Midway Island, Onetree Rock, Reef Rock, Sea Lion Rocks, Second Kekur, Third Kekur, Tikhaia Islands, Viking Rock,

Lakes:

Antipatr Lake, Baturin Lake, Cliff Lake, Davidof Lake, Khvostof Lake, Maksoutof Lake, Plotnikof Lake, Rezanof Lake, Tumakof Lake, Upper Brentwood Lake,

Mountains:

Mount Emma, Grouse Peak, Mount Hagemeister, Mount Muravief, Ptarmigan Peak, Mount Rudakof, Mount Stoeckel,

Rivers:

Maksoutof River,

Routes:

Davidof Lake Trail,