Information About

Double Island

Quick Facts

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Location

57 ° 11' 22.999" N,
135 ° 34' 30" W

Region

Sitka

Nearest City

Sitka

Double Island in Detail.

About

in Krestof Sound, 13 mi. NW of Sitka, Alex. Arch.

History

Descriptive name given in 1908 by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) and published in 1909 on Chart 8280. It was "so named because it is shaped like a figure '8'."

Places Near Double Island
Cities:

Fort Saint Michael,

Archipelagos:

Apple Islands, Gavanski Islands, Magoun Islands, Saint Lazaria 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, Liar Rocks, Makhnati Rock, Nicholson Rocks, Sentinel Rock, Usher Rock, Wayanda Ledge, Wyvill Reef,

Bays:

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

Capes:

Point Brown, Point Kakul, Allan Point, Cape Burunof, 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 Point, Near Point, Neva Point, Olga Point, Partof Point, Pinta Head, Range Point, Rob Point, Schulze Head, Scraggy 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, 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, Japonski Island, Kane Islands, Kasiana Islands, Kirushkin Island, Krestof Island, Krugloi Islands, Kruzof Island, Kulichkof Rock, Lava 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, Stewart Island, Suloia Islet, Suloia Rock, Surf Rock, Virublennoi Island, Vitskari Island, Vitskari Rocks, W Francis Rock, West Francis Rock, Whitestone Rock, Zenobia Rock,

Mountains:

Mount Edgecumbe, Krestof Mountain, Shell Mountain,

Parks:

Magoun Islands State Marine Park,

Mountain Passes:

Sergius Narrows, Western Anchorage,

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,