Alaska Gazetteer
Winstanley Island is a physical feature (island) in Ketchikan Gateway Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Winstanley Island |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Island |
| Description: | in Behm Canal, 2 mi. NE of Smeaton I., Coast Mts. |
| History: | Named in 1879 by W. H. Dall, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) for the English engineer who built the first Eddystone Lighthouse near Plymouth, England in 1696-1699, an who lost his life there in 1903; published in the 1883 Coast Pilot (p. 72). |
| Borough: | Ketchikan Gateway Borough |
| Latitude: | 55.4311103821 |
| Longitude: | -130.906951904 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Winstanley Island: Winstanley 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 Winstanley Island does not include property ownership information.
