Information About

Mills Island

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Mills Island on The Map

Location

57 ° 11' 12.001" N,
135 ° 33' 54" W

Region

Sitka

Nearest City

Sitka

Mills Island in Detail.

About

in Krestof Sound, 12 mi. NW of Sitka, Alex. Arch.

History

This feature was named "Mills Islet" in 1897 by Commander E. K. Moore, U.S. Navy (USN), for a prominent Sitka merchant. It was originally called "Ostrov Krugloy," meaning "round island," in 1809 by the Russian navigator Ivan Vasiliev the first.

Places Near Mills Island
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, Brad Rock, Channel Rock, Channel Rocks, Columbine Rock, E Francis Rock, Kakul Rock, Keene Rock, Liar Rocks, Makhnati Rock, Nicholson Rocks, Sentinel Rock, Usher Rock, Wayanda Ledge, Wyvill Reef,

Bays:

Port Krestof, Port Mary, Bradshaw Cove, Cedar Cove, Crab Bay, Cuvacan Cove, DeGroff Bay, Eastern Bay, Fish Bay, Gilmer Cove, Haley Anchorage, Kalinin Bay, Krestof Sound, Krestof Sound, Launch Cove, Louise Cove, Mud Bay, Nakwasina Sound, Pirate Cove, Promisla Bay, Saint John Baptist Bay, Salisbury Sound, Salmonberry Cove, Samsing Cove, Schulze Cove, Sealing Cove, Sinitsin Cove, Sitka Sound, Starrigavan Bay, Sukoi Inlet, Sukoi Inlet, Sukon Strait, Thomsen Harbor, Three Entrance Bay, Whitestone Cove, Whiting Harbor,

Capes:

Point Brown, Point Kakul, Allan Point, Cape Burunof, Creek Point, Dog Point, Eastern Point, Escape Cape, Fish Point, Haley Point, Halibut Point, Halleck Point, Harbor Point, Hayward Point, Inner Point, Island Point, Kamenoi Point, Kresta Point, Krugloi Point, Lisianski Peninsula, Lisianski Point, Mountain Point, Near Point, Neva Point, Olga Point, Partof Point, Pinta Head, Range Point, Rob Point, Schulze Head, Scraggy Point, Shoals Point, Struya Point, Sukoi Point, Suloia Point, Watson Point, Whitestone Point, Zeal Point,

Channels:

Canoe Pass, East Channel Hayward Strait, Hayward Strait, Kakul Narrows, Middle Channel, Nakwasina Passage, Neva Strait, Olga Strait, West Channel Hayward Strait, Western Channel, Whitestone Narrows,

Islands:

Bare Island, Bart Island, Battery Island, Beehive Island, Belknap Islands, Bieli Rocks, Big Gavanski Island, Border Rocks, Brady Island, Chaichei Islands, Charcoal Island, Crosswise Islands, Crow Island, Double Island, East Francis Rock, The Eckholms, Entrance Island, Fritz Island, Fruit Island, Fruit Islands, Gagarin Island, Gold Island, Gold Island, Goloi Island, Goloi Islands, Griffith Island, Guide Island, Haley Rocks, Halleck Island, Highwater Island, Japonski Island, Kane Islands, Kasiana Islands, Kayak Islands, Kirushkin Island, Krestof Island, Krugloi Islands, Kruzof Island, Kulichkof Rock, Lava Island, Liesnoi Island, Limit Island, Line Island, Little Gavanski Island, Long Island, Low Island, Makhnati Island, Mertz Island, Middle Island, Mills Island, Mogilnoi Island, Nadezhda Islands, Nepovorotni Rocks, Neva Island, Nevski Island, Parker Group, Partofshikof Island, Passage Islands, Piper Island, Pritchard Rock, Rashimosti Island, Round Island, Sasedni Island, Scraggy Islands, Siginaka Islands, Signal Island, Sinitsin Island, Smith Island, Sound Islands, Stewart Island, Stewart Island, Suloia Islet, Suloia Rock, 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,

Mountain Passes:

Western Anchorage,

Ridges:

Crater Ridge,

Streams:

Cascade Creek, Fish Bay Creek, Freds Creek, Granite Creek, Peterson Creek, Starrigavan Creek,

Routes:

Harbor Mountain - Gavan Hill Trail, Kruzof Island Trail, Mount Edgecumbe Trail, Sitka Cross Trail, Sitka’s Cross Trail,