Alaska Gazetteer
Knight Island is a physical feature (island) in Yakutat Borough. The primary coordinates for Knight Island places it within the 99689 ZIP Code delivery area.
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| Feature Name: | Knight Island |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Island |
| Description: | on E shore of Yakutat Bay, 12 mi. NE of Yakutat, St. Elias Mts. |
| History: | "Named ""Knight's Island"" in 1794 by Lieutenant Peter Puget (in Vancouver, 1798, v. 3, p. 226), RN, probably for Sir John Knight, RN, who had been a fellow prisoner with Lieutenant W. R. Broughton, commander of the Chatham, in America in 1777, during the Revolutionary War (Wagner, 1937, p. 394). It was called ""O(strov) Dalniy,"" meaning ""distant island,"" by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 7), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), and ""Dalni Island"" by W. H. Dall in 1883 Coast Pilot (p. 210)." |
| Borough: | Yakutat Borough |
| Latitude: | 59.7197227478 |
| Longitude: | -139.5625 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Knight Island: Knight 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 Knight Island does not include property ownership information.
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