Alaska Gazetteer
Erskine Mountain is a physical feature (summit) in Kodiak Island Borough. The primary coordinates for Erskine Mountain places it within the AK 99615 ZIP Code delivery area.
| Feature Name: | Erskine Mountain |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Summit |
| Description: | 7.5 mi. SW of Kodiak, Kodiak I. |
| History: | Named in 1940 by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) for Captain Melville Cox Erskine, 1835-1909, master of the first American vessel, the Fideleter, owned by the Alaska Commercial Company, to be registered in the new Territory of Alaska in 1867. Captain Erskine superintended the building of the steamer St. Paul at Philadelphia in 1875. The St. Paul was the first iron ship to sail in the Bering Sea, and it was commanded by Captain Erskine until 1893 when he was appointed as a San Francisco bar pilot. |
| Borough: | Kodiak Island Borough |
| Latitude: | 57.748714447 |
| Longitude: | -152.605560303 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Erskine Mountain: Erskine Mountain.
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 Erskine Mountain does not include property ownership information.
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