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Gagarin Island

Quick Facts

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Location

57 ° 5' 51" N,
135 ° 29' 12.001" W

Region

Sitka

Nearest City

Sitka

Gagarin Island in Detail.

About

in Sitka Sound, 6.5 mi. NW of Sitka, Alex. Arch. 0.6 mile long.

History

Named in 1809 by the Russian navigator Ivan Vasiliev the first Imperial Russian Navy (IRN) published by Lieutenant Sarichev (1826, map 19), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), "O[strov] Gagarin" or "Gagarin Island." Gagarin is a well-known Russian family name. The name "Ostrov Gagary," meaning "loon island," was published for this feature in 1848 on Russian Hydrographic Dept. Chart 1397.

Places Near Gagarin Island
Cities:

Fort Saint Michael, The Redoubt,

Archipelagos:

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

Areas:

Old Sitka Rocks,

Bars:

Alexander Rock, Alice Island, Bare Rock, Black Rock, Channel Rock, Columbine Rock, Ferebee Rock, Frosty Reef, Harbor Rock, Keene Rock, Liar Rocks, Makhnati Rock, Mitchell Rock, Nicholson Rocks, Rocky Patch, Rose Rock, Sentinel Rock, Shoal Island, Simpson Rock, Tsaritsa Rock, Usher Rock, Vasilief Bank, Wyvill Reef,

Bays:

Port Krestof, Aleutkina Bay, Cedar Cove, Crab Bay, Crescent Bay, DeGroff Bay, Eastern Bay, Gilmer Cove, Jamestown Bay, Kanga Bay, Katlian Bay, Kidney Cove, Krestof Sound, Krestof Sound, Mielkoi Cove, Mud Bay, Nakwasina Bay, Nakwasina Sound, Pirate Cove, Promisla Bay, Redoubt Bay, Saint John Baptist Bay, Samsing Cove, Sandy Cove, Sealing Cove, Sitka Harbor, Sitka Sound, Starrigavan Bay, Sukoi Inlet, Sukoi Inlet, Sukon Strait, Thomsen Harbor, Three Entrance Bay, Whitestone Cove, Whiting Harbor,

Capes:

Point Brown, Allan Point, Cape Burunof, Creek Point, Dog Point, Eastern Point, Escape Cape, Halibut Point, Halleck Point, Harbor 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, Shoals Point, Silver Point, Watson Point, Whitestone Point, Zeal Point,

Channels:

East Channel Hayward Strait, Eastern Channel, Hayward Strait, Islet Passage, Koka Island Passage, Middle Channel, Nakwasina Passage, Neva Strait, Olga Strait, 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, Beardslee Islands, Beehive Island, Belknap Islands, Berry Island, Bieli Rocks, Big Gavanski Island, Boidarkin Island, Border Rocks, Brady Island, Breast Island, Calming Island, Cannon Island, Caution Island, Chaichei Islands, Charcoal Island, Cobb Island, Crosswise Islands, Crow Island, Double Island, Dove Island, The Eckholms, Emgeten Island, Entrance Island, Error Island, Fankuda Islet, Fassett Island, Fritz Island, Fruit Island, Fruit Islands, Gagarin Island, Galankin Island, Glagolm Island, Gold Island, Gold Island, Goloi Island, Griffith Island, Guertin Island, Guide Island, Gull Islet, Halleck Island, Harbor Island, Harris Island, Highwater Island, Ilput Island, Japonski Island, Kamennoi Island, Kanga Island, Kasiana Islands, Katz Island, Kayak Islands, Kirushkin Island, Kita Island, Koka Island, Korga Island, Krestof Island, Kruzof Island, Kulichkof Rock, Kutkan Island, Lava Island, Liesnoi Island, Limit Island, Line Island, Little Gavanski Island, Long Island, Love Island, Low Island, Luce Island, Makhnati Island, Marshall Island, Martin Island, McClellan Group, Mertz Island, Middle Island, Mills Island, Minett Island, Mogilnoi Island, Morne Island, Nadezhda Islands, Nepovorotni Rocks, Neva Island, Nevski Island, Obsechki Island, Parker Group, Partofshikof Island, Passage Islands, Peisar Island, Pritchard Rock, Rashimosti Island, Ring Island, Road Island, Rockwell Island, Rockwell Island, Round Island, Sasedni Island, Sheep Island, Siginaka Islands, Signal Island, Smith Island, Sosnovoi Island, Sound Islands, Stewart Island, Stewart Island, Surf Rock, Taigud Island, Turning Island, The Twins, Ulinoi Island, Unishka Island, Virublennoi Island, Vitskari Island, Vitskari Rocks, Volga Island, Whale Island, Whitestone Rock, Zenobia Rock,

Lakes:

Swan Lake,

Mountains:

Annahootz Mountain, Mount Dranishnikof, Harbor Peak, Mount Kinkaid, Krestof Mountain, Mount Rosenberg, Shell Mountain,

Parks:

Magoun Islands State Marine Park,

Mountain Passes:

Ellsworth Cut, Western Anchorage,

Mountain Ranges:

The Pyramids,

Ridges:

Gavan Hill,

Rivers:

Coxe River, Dranishnikov River, Indian River, Katlian River,

Streams:

Cascade Creek, Freds Creek, Granite Creek, Kizhuchia Creek, Peterson Creek, Starrigavan Creek,

Routes:

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