Alaska Gazetteer
Pillar Rock is a physical feature (island) in Aleutians West (CA) Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Pillar Rock |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Island |
| Description: | in Bering Sea, 8.3 mi. W of Wolf Point, on NW coast of Kiska I., Aleutian Islands. |
| History: | "This is a translation of a descriptive name first reported in 1827 as ""Rocher-en-form-de Colonne,"" meaning ""Rock in the form of a Column,"" by Admiral A. J. von Krusenstern, commander of the Russian American Company ship Nadezhda. The Russians called it ""Vysokiy kamen"" meaning ""High Rock"" on the 1848 Russian Hydrographic Dept. Chart 1400, and ""Stolb"" meaning ""Pillar"" (Tebenkov, 1852, map 29)." |
| Borough: | Aleutians West (CA) Borough |
| Latitude: | 52.1211128235 |
| Longitude: | 177.358062744 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Pillar Rock: Pillar Rock.
Note that you do not have the right to enter private property without the owner's permission. You do have a right to access goverment property that is open to the general public. The GNIS Feature Detail Report for Pillar Rock does not include property ownership information.
