Information About

Port Krestof

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Port Krestof on The Map

Location

57 ° 9' 0" N,
135 ° 35' 24" W

Region

Sitka

Nearest City

Sitka

Port Krestof in Detail.

About

on E coast of Kruzof I., 12 mi. NW of Sitka, Alex. Arch. 0.7 mile wide.

History

Name published in 1848 on Russian Hydrog, Dept. Chart 1397 as "Gavan Krestovskaya," meaning "cross harbor." It was called "Zaliv Mylkoy, "meaning "shallow bay," in 1809 by the navigator Ivan Vasiliev the first; Imperial Russian Navy (IRN); published as such by Lieutenant Sarichev (1826, map 19), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN).

Places Near Port Krestof
Archipelagos:

Apple Islands, Gavanski Islands, Magoun Islands, Saint Lazaria Islands,

Areas:

Iris Meadows, Old Sitka Rocks,

Bars:

Bare Rock, Black Rock, Columbine Rock, Kakul Rock, Makhnati Rock, Nicholson Rocks, Sentinel Rock, Usher Rock, Vasilief Bank, Wyvill Reef,

Bays:

Port Krestof, Port Mary, Crab Bay, Cuvacan Cove, DeGroff Bay, Eastern Bay, Gilmer Cove, Goleta Cove, Kalinin Bay, Krestof Sound, Krestof Sound, Mielkoi Cove, Mud Bay, Nakwasina Sound, Promisla Bay, Saint John Baptist Bay, Salisbury Sound, Shelikof Bay, Sinitsin Cove, Sitka Sound, Starrigavan Bay, Sukoi Inlet, Sukoi Inlet, Sukon Strait, Whitestone Cove,

Capes:

Point Brown, Point Kakul, Allan Point, Cape Burunof, Creek Point, Dog Point, Eastern Point, Escape Cape, Halibut Point, Halleck Point, Harbor Point, Hayward Point, Inner Point, Kalinin Point, Kamenoi Point, Kresta Point, Krugloi Point, Lisianski Peninsula, Lisianski Point, Mountain Point, Neva Point, Olga Point, Partof Point, Povorotni Point, Rob Point, Scraggy Point, Shoals Point, Sukoi Point, Whitestone Point, Zeal Point,

Channels:

East Channel Hayward Strait, Hayward Strait, 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, Calming Island, Chaichei Islands, Crosswise Islands, Crow Island, Double Island, Entrance Island, Gagarin Island, Glagolm Island, Gold Island, Gold Island, Goloi Island, Goloi Islands, Guide Island, Halleck Island, Highwater Island, Kamennoi Island, Kane Islands, Kasiana Islands, Kirushkin Island, Kita Island, Krestof Island, Krugloi Islands, Kruzof Island, Kulichkof Rock, Lava Island, Liesnoi Island, Limit Island, Line Island, Little Gavanski Island, Low Island, Makhnati Island, Middle Island, Mills Island, Mogilnoi Island, Nadezhda Islands, Neva Island, Obsechki Island, Parker Group, Partofshikof Island, Sasedni Island, Scraggy Islands, Siginaka Islands, Signal Island, Sinitsin Island, Sound Islands, Surf Rock, Virublennoi Island, Vitskari Island, Vitskari Rocks, Whitestone Rock, Zenobia Rock,

Mountains:

Mount Edgecumbe, Krestof Mountain, Shell Mountain,

Parks:

Magoun Islands State Marine Park,

Ridges:

Crater Ridge,

Streams:

Fish Bay Creek, Freds Creek, Granite Creek,

Routes:

Kruzof Island Trail, Mount Edgecumbe Trail,