Information About

Basket Bay

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Basket Bay on The Map

Location

57 ° 39' 46.001" N,
134 ° 55' 0.998" W

Region

Sitka

Nearest City

Tenakee Springs

Parent

Chatham Strait

Tlingit Name

Kák’w, Kook

Basket Bay in Detail.

Getting There

From Juneau or Sitka chartering a float plane would be the simplest way to reach Basket Bay.

About

Basket Bay is half a mile wide and lies 8 miles south of the mouth of Tenakee Inlet, on Chichagof Island, 45 mi. NE of Sitka, Alexander Archipelago.

According to stories there used to be a Tlingit settlement in Basket Bay.

History

Named by the employees of the Alaska Oil and Guano Company at Killisnoo about 1900. The Tlingit name Kook Bay was published in 1899 by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) on Chart 8050. It was called Kakagin Inlet in the 1883 Coast Pilot (p. 178).

Topo Maps

Sitka C-3 (1948), Sitka (1951), Sitka (1951), Sitka (1951), Sitka (1951), Sitka (1951), Sitka (1951), Sitka C-3 (1951), Sitka C-3 (1951), Sitka (1952), Sitka (1952), Sitka (1952), Sitka (1952), Sitka C-3 (1997), Sitka C-3 NW (2017),
Places Near Basket Bay
Cities:

Sitkoh,

Bars:

Morris Reef,

Bays:

Basket Bay, Cedar Cove, Coffee Cove, Corner Bay, Fin Cove, Florence Bay, Lindenberg Harbor, Little Basket Bay, Marble Cove, Pavlof Harbor, Sitkoh Bay, Trap Bay, Wachusett Cove,

Capes:

Point Craven, Point Hayes, Cannery Point, Columbia Point, East Point, East Point, False Lindenberg Head, Fishery Point, Hill Point, Iyoukeen Peninsula, Lindenberg Head, North Passage Point, Outer Point, Peninsular Point, South Passage Point, West Point,

Cliffs:

Marble Bluffs,

Dams:

Kennel Creek Dam,

Islands:

Cedar Island, Little Cedar Island, McClellan Rock, Pinnacle Rock, White Rock,

Lakes:

Basket Lake, Kook Lake, Pavlof Lake, Sitkoh Lake,

Rivers:

Pavlof River, Salmon River,

Streams:

Basket Creek, Corner Creek, Fishery Creek, Harley Creek, Kook Creek, Sitkoh Creek, Small Creek, Ward Creek,

Routes:

Sitkoh Lake Trail,

Cities:

Cannery, Chatham, Todd,