Alaska Gazetteer
Shaw Island is a physical feature (island) in Kenai Peninsula Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Shaw Island |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Island |
| Description: | in Cook Inlet, at head of Alaska Peninsula, in Katmai National Monument, Aleutian Range |
| History: | "Named in 1794 ""Shaw's Island"" by Captain George Vancouver. ""Shown on Vancouver's Chart (of 1798) but not mentioned in the text"" (Wagner, 1937, p. 416). Native name was published in 1847 as ""Ostrov Shunakhtuli"" on Russian Hydrographic Dept. Chart 1378; named ""O(strov) Kamyshak"" in 1849 by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 5); Imperial Russian Navy (IRN)." |
| Borough: | Kenai Peninsula Borough |
| Latitude: | 59.0050010681 |
| Longitude: | -153.383605957 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Shaw Island: Shaw 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 Shaw Island does not include property ownership information.
