Information About

Halleck Island

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Halleck Island on The Map

Location

57 ° 13' 18.001" N,
135 ° 26' 51" W

Region

Sitka

Nearest City

Sitka

Elevation

1017 ft (309.98 m)

Halleck Island in Detail.

About

11 mi. NW of Sitka, Alex. Arch.

History

Named in 1869 by Commander R. W. Meade, U.S. Navy (USN), for Major General Henry Wager Halleck, 1815-72, USA, then in command at Sitka. General Halleck upon graduating from West Point was appointed to the Corps of Engineers. During the Civil War he was commander in chief of the Union armies from 1862 to 1864, when he was replaced by General U. S. Grant. He was in command of the military division of the Pacific, 1865-69.

Places Near Halleck Island
Cities:

Fort Saint Michael,

Archipelagos:

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

Areas:

Old Sitka Rocks,

Bars:

Alexander Rock, Alice Island, Bare Rock, Black Rock, Channel Rock, Columbine Rock, E Francis Rock, Ferebee Rock, Harbor Rock, Keene Rock, Liar Rocks, Makhnati Rock, Midway Rock, Mitchell Rock, Nicholson Rocks, Rocky Patch, Rose Rock, Sentinel Rock, Shoal Island, Simpson Rock, Tsaritsa Rock, Usher Rock, Wayanda Ledge, Wyvill Reef,

Basins:

Billy Basin,

Bays:

Port Krestof, Baby Bear Bay, Bear Bay, Birdsnest Bay, Camp Coogan Bay, Cedar Cove, Crab Bay, Crescent Bay, DeGroff Bay, Eastern Bay, Fish Bay, Gilmer Cove, Haley Anchorage, Jamestown Bay, Katlian Bay, Krestof Sound, Krestof Sound, Launch Cove, Liesnoi Shoal, Mud Bay, Nakwasina Bay, Nakwasina Sound, Promisla Bay, Saint John Baptist Bay, Schulze Cove, Sealing Cove, Sitka Harbor, Starrigavan Bay, Sukoi Inlet, Sukon Strait, Thimbleberry Bay, Thomsen Harbor, Whitestone Cove, Whiting Harbor,

Capes:

Point Sinbad, Point Siroi, Point Brown, Allan Point, Creek Point, Dog Point, Eastern Point, Entry Point, Escape Cape, Fish Point, Haley Point, Halibut Point, Halleck Point, Harbor 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, Sergius Point, Shoal Point, Shoals Point, Silver Point, Struya Point, Suloia Point, Watson Point, Whitestone Point, Zeal Point,

Channels:

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

Cities:

Sitka,

Dams:

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, Bear Bay Island, Beardslee Islands, Beehive Island, Belknap Islands, Berry Island, Bieli Rocks, Big Gavanski Island, Big Island, Boidarkin Island, Border Rocks, Brady Island, Breast Island, Cannon Island, Chaichei Islands, Charcoal Island, Cobb Island, Crosswise Islands, Crow Island, Double Island, Dove Island, East Francis Rock, The Eckholms, Entrance Island, Error Island, Fassett Island, Fritz Island, Fruit Island, Fruit Islands, Gagarin Island, Galankin Island, Gold Island, Gold Island, Grasstop Rock, Griffith Island, Guertin Island, Guide Island, Haley Rocks, Halleck Island, Harbor Island, Harris Island, Highwater Island, Japonski Island, Kane Islands, Kasiana Islands, Katz Island, Kayak Islands, Kirushkin Island, Krestof Island, Kutkan Island, Liesnoi Island, Limit Island, Line Island, Little Gavanski Island, Little Island, Little Rapids Island, Love Island, Low Island, Luce Island, Makhnati Island, Marshall Island, Martin Island, McClellan Group, Middle Island, Mills Island, Minett Island, Mogilnoi Island, Morne Island, Nadezhda Islands, Nepovorotni Rocks, Neva Island, Nevski Island, Parker Group, Partofshikof Island, Passage Islands, Piper Island, Pritchard Rock, Prolewy Rock, Rapids Island, Rashimosti Island, Ring Island, Rockwell Island, Rockwell Island, Sasedni Island, Sheep Island, Siginaka Islands, Signal Island, Smith Island, Sound Islands, Stewart Island, Stewart Island, Suloia Islet, Suloia Rock, Surf Rock, Turning Island, The Twins, Virublennoi Island, Vitskari Rocks, Volga Island, W Francis Rock, West Francis Rock, Whale Island, Whitestone Rock,

Lakes:

Cold Storage Lake, Heart Lake, Swan Lake, Thimbleberry Lake,

Mountains:

Annahootz Mountain, Cross Mountain, Harbor Peak, Krestof Mountain, Mount Rosenberg, Mount Verstovia,

Parks:

Big Bear - Baby Bear State Marine Park, Magoun Islands State Marine Park,

Mountain Passes:

Ellsworth Cut, Sergius Narrows, Western Anchorage,

Rapids:

Southern Rapids,

Ridges:

Gavan Hill,

Rivers:

Coxe River, Indian River, Katlian River,

Streams:

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

Routes:

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