Information About

Escape Cape

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Escape Cape on The Map

Location

57 ° 8' 56" N,
135 ° 34' 41.002" W

Region

Sitka

Nearest City

Sitka

Elevation

105 ft (32 m)

Escape Cape in Detail.

About

on E shore of Port Krestof, on E coast of Kruzof I.; Alex. Arch.

History

U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) derived this name about 1882 from translation of part of "Mys Koloshskoy Strechi," meaning "cape Koloshian-escape"; published by Lieutenant Sarichev (1826, map 19), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN); given in 1809 by the navigator Ivan Vasiliev the first. name for the Tlingit Indians.

Places Near Escape Cape
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, Channel Rock, Columbine Rock, Kakul Rock, Keene 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, Kalinin Bay, Krestof Sound, Krestof Sound, Mielkoi Cove, Mud Bay, Nakwasina Sound, Pirate Cove, Promisla Bay, Saint John Baptist Bay, Salisbury Sound, Sinitsin Cove, Sitka Sound, Starrigavan Bay, Sukoi Inlet, Sukoi Inlet, Sukon Strait, Three Entrance Bay, Whitestone Cove, Whiting Harbor,

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, 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, Watson 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, Nepovorotni Rocks, Neva Island, Nevski Island, Obsechki Island, Parker Group, Partofshikof Island, Passage Islands, Rashimosti Island, Sasedni Island, Scraggy Islands, Siginaka Islands, Signal Island, Sinitsin Island, Smith Island, Sound Islands, Stewart Island, Surf Rock, Ulinoi Island, Virublennoi Island, Vitskari Island, Vitskari Rocks, Whitestone Rock, Zenobia Rock,

Mountains:

Mount Edgecumbe, Krestof Mountain, Shell Mountain,

Parks:

Magoun Islands State Marine Park,

Mountain Passes:

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,