Alaska Gazetteer
Priest Rock is a physical feature (bar) in Aleutians West (CA) Borough.
Sorry, no local resorces for this location!
| Feature Name: | Priest Rock |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Bar |
| Description: | off Cape Kalekta on NE coast of Unalaska I., Aleutian Islands. |
| History: | Descriptive name used locally because of the resemblance of the rock to a Russian priest. Captain Lutke (1836, p. 281), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), says: The broken-down cliffs and isolated rocks sometimes take the most fantastic forms; as, for example, the one just in front of Cape Kalekta exactly resembles an old man having his head inclined and his arms crossed on his breast. |
| Borough: | Aleutians West (CA) Borough |
| Latitude: | 54.0144462585 |
| Longitude: | -166.379165649 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Priest Rock: Priest Rock.
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 Priest Rock does not include property ownership information.
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