Alaska Gazetteer
Herbert Graves Island is a physical feature (island) in Sitka Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Herbert Graves Island |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Island |
| Description: | 3 mi. W of Chichigof, on W coast of Chichagof I.; Alex. Arch. |
| History: | named by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) for Captain Herbert Cornelius Graves, 1869-1919, hydrographic and geodetic engineer of U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), who died in 1919 while in England on an important offical mission to that country. and Topography, was, for 5 years preceeding his death, in direct charge of U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) work in Alaska. the island, was reported by Overbeck (1919, pl. 2), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). |
| Borough: | Sitka Borough |
| Latitude: | 57.6827774048 |
| Longitude: | -136.196105957 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Herbert Graves Island: Herbert Graves Island.
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 Herbert Graves Island does not include property ownership information.
