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Vitskari Island

Quick Facts

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Location

57 ° 0' 2.002" N,
135 ° 32' 34.001" W

Region

Sitka

Nearest City

Sitka

Vitskari Island in Detail.

About

in Sitka Sound, 8.5 mi. SW of Sitka, on W coast of Baranof I.; Alex. Arch.

History

named in 1809 by the Russian navigator, Ivan Vasiliev the first; published by Lieutenant Sarichev (1826, map 19), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as "O(strov) Vitskary," or "Vitskary Island." Kostrometinoff, United States court interpreter at Sitka, this means "Captain Witz's chastisement" (Baker, 1906, p. 661). this feature was called "Middle Islands" by Captain U. T. Lisianski, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN).

Places Near Vitskari Island
Archipelagos:

Apple Islands, Gavanski Islands, Magoun Islands, Necker Islands, Saint Lazaria Islands, Taigud Islands,

Areas:

Iris Meadows, Old Sitka Rocks,

Bars:

Alexander Rock, Alice Island, Bare Rock, Biorka Reef, Black Rock, Channel Rock, Ferebee Rock, Frosty Reef, Harbor Rock, Keene Rock, Liar Rocks, Makhnati Rock, Middle Rock, Mitchell Rock, Nicholson Rocks, Rose Rock, Sentinel Rock, Shoal Island, Simpson Rock, Usher Rock, Vasilief Bank,

Bays:

Port Krestof, Port Mary, Big Bay, Cedar Cove, Crab Bay, Crane Cove, DeGroff Bay, Eastern Bay, Herring Bay, Hot Springs Bay, Kanga Bay, Katlian Bay, Kliuchevoi Bay, Krestof Sound, Marsh Bay, Mielkoi Cove, Mud Bay, Nakwasina Sound, Pirate Cove, Promisla Bay, Redoubt Bay, Rocky Cove, Samsing Cove, Sealing Cove, Sitka Harbor, Sitka Sound, Starrigavan Bay, Symonds Bay, Thomsen Harbor, Three Entrance Bay, Whiting Harbor,

Capes:

Point Woodhouse, Point Brown, Cape Burunof, Creek Point, Dog Point, Eastern Point, Escape Cape, Halibut Point, Hanus Point, Harbor Point, Inner Point, Kamenoi Point, Kliuchef Peninsula, Kresta Point, Krugloi Point, Lisianski Peninsula, Lisianski Point, Mountain Point, Peresheek Point, Povorotni Point, Rob Point, Shoals Point, Watson Point,

Channels:

Biorka Channel, Dorothy Narrows, East Channel Hayward Strait, Hayward Strait, Islet Passage, Koka Island Passage, Middle Channel, Olga Strait, West Channel Hayward Strait, Western Channel, Windy Passage,

Cities:

Sitka,

Dams:

Cascade Creek Dam,

Fictional Places:

Port Anna,

Hills:

Castle Hill,

Islands:

Aleutski Island, Ataku Island, Bamdoroshni Island, Bare Island, Battery Island, Beardslee Islands, Beehive Island, Belknap Islands, Bieli Rocks, Big Gavanski Island, Biorka Island, Blackbird Island, Border Rocks, Brady Island, Breast Island, Calligan Island, Calming Island, Caution Island, Chaichei Islands, Charcoal Island, Crosswise Islands, Crow Island, Double Island, The Eckholms, Elovoi Island, Emgeten Island, Entrance Islet, Fankuda Islet, Fragrant Island, Fritz Island, Fruit Island, Fruit Islands, Gagarin Island, Galankin Island, Galkin Island, Glagolm Island, Gold Island, Gold Island, Golf Island, Goloi Island, Golovni Island, Gornoi Island, Griffith Island, Guide Island, Gull Islet, Gunboat Rock, Hanus Islet, Harbor Island, Ilput Island, Impassible Island, Jacknife Islands, Jacob Rock, Japonski Island, Jug Island, Kaiuchali Island, Kamennoi Island, Kanga Island, Kasiana Islands, Kayak Islands, Kirbas Island, Kirushkin Island, Kita Island, Kliuchevoi Island, Koka Island, Kolash Island, Korga Island, Krestof Island, Kruzof Island, Kulichkof Rock, Kutkan Island, Lava Island, Legma Island, Liesnoi Island, Liesnoi Island, Line Island, Little Biorka Island, Little Gavanski Island, Little Wrangell Island, Long Island, Love Island, Low Island, Maid Island, Makhnati Island, McClellan Group, Mertz Island, Middle Island, Mills Island, Mogilnoi Island, Nadezhda Islands, Naerie Rock, Nameless Island, Nepovorotni Rocks, Neva Island, Nevski Island, Obsechki Island, Parker Group, Passage Islands, Peisar Island, Pishak Island, Pritchard Rock, Rashimosti Island, Road Island, Rockwell Island, Rockwell Island, Round Island, Sasedni Island, Sheep Island, Siginaka Islands, Signal Island, Smith Island, Sosnovoi Island, Stewart Island, Stewart Island, Surf Rock, Taigud Island, Tava Island, Terbilon Island, Tiurpa Island, Torsar Island, Turning Island, Ulinoi Island, Unishka Island, Urilof Island, Vasilief Rock, Viesokoi Rock, Virublennoi Island, Vitskari Island, Vitskari Rocks, Volga Island, Whale Island, Wrangell Island, Zenobia Rock,

Lakes:

Swan Lake,

Mountains:

Camel Mountain, Mount Edgecumbe, Harbor Peak, Mount Kliuchef, Krestof Mountain, Shell Mountain,

Parks:

Magoun Islands State Marine Park,

Mountain Passes:

Western Anchorage,

Ridges:

Crater Ridge,

Streams:

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

Routes:

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

Cities:

Goddard,