History of Kruzof Island

the Tlingit Indian name for this island was recorded in 1849 by Captain Tevenov (1852, map 7), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as "O(strov) Tlikh." After 1775, when Don Juan de la Bodega y Quadra named Mount Edgecumbe "Montana de San Jacinto," the island became known as San Jacinto or, as La Perouse called it, St. Hyacinthe. Nathaniel Portlock named it "Pitt Island" (Wagner, 1937, p. 485). The early Russian traders called it "Sitka Island," but in 1805 Captain U. T. Lisianski, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), named it "Crooze Island," after a Russian admiral. or Krusow Island." p. 384).

Found on the following Topo Maps

Places Near Kruzof Island

Magoun Islands, Saint Lazaria Islands,

Iris Meadows, Sealion Rocks,

Brad Rock, Channel Rocks, Columbine Rock, Kakul Rock, Sea Rock, Wyvill Reef,

Port Krestof, Port Mary, Bradshaw Cove, Crab Bay, Cuvacan Cove, DeGroff Bay, Eastern Bay, Fish Bay, Gilmer Bay, Gilmer Cove, Goleta Cove, Haley Anchorage, Kalinin Bay, Krestof Sound, Krestof Sound, Louise Cove, Mud Bay, Neva Bay, Promisla Bay, Saint John Baptist Bay, Salisbury Sound, Salmonberry Cove, Sea Lion Bay, Shelikof Bay, Sinitsin Cove, Sitka Sound, Sukoi Inlet, Sukoi Inlet, Sukon Strait, Whitestone Cove,

Point Mary, Point Amelia, Point Brown, Point Kakul, Point Kruzof, Beaver Point, Cape Edgecumbe, Cape Georgiana, Creek Point, Engano Point, Escape Cape, Haley Point, Halleck Point, Hayward Point, Inner Point, Kalinin Point, Kamenoi Point, Kresta Point, Mountain Point, Neva Point, Olga Point, Partof Point, Range Point, Rob Point, Schulze Head, Scraggy Point, Shoals Point, Sitka Point, Struya Point, Sukoi Point, Trubitsin Point, Twin Point, Whitestone Point, Zeal Point,

East Channel Hayward Strait, Hayward Strait, Kakul Narrows, Neva Strait, Olga Strait, West Channel Hayward Strait, Whitestone Narrows,

Bare Island, Bart Island, Bieli Rocks, Brady Island, Chaichei Islands, Crow Island, Double Island, Eagle Rock, Entrance Island, Gagarin Island, Goloi Island, Goloi Islands, Guide Island, Haley Rocks, Highwater Island, Kane Islands, Krestof Island, Krugloi Islands, Kruzof Island, Lava Island, Liesnoi Island, Limit Island, Low Island, Mills Island, Nadezhda Islands, Partofshikof Island, Round Island, Scraggy Islands, Sealion Island, Sealion Islands, Sinitsin Island, Slaughter Island, Sound Islands, Vitskari Island, Vitskari Rocks, Whitestone Rock,

Lake Surprise,

Mount Edgecumbe, Mount Georgiana, Krestof Mountain, Shell Mountain,

Magoun Islands State Marine Park,

Crater Ridge,

Fish Bay Creek, Freds Creek,

Kruzof Island Trail, Mount Edgecumbe Trail,