Alaska Gazetteer
Kruzof Island is a physical feature (island) in Sitka Borough. The primary coordinates for Kruzof Island places it within the AK 99835 ZIP Code delivery area.
| Feature Name: | Kruzof Island |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Island |
| Description: | W of Baranof I. and 10 mi. NW of Sitka; Alex. Arch. |
| History: | "the Tlingit Indian name for this island was recorded in 1849 by Captain Tevenov (1852, map 7), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as ""O(strov) Tlikh."" After 1775, when Don Juan de la Bodega y Quadra named Mount Edgecumbe ""Montana de San Jacinto,"" the island became known as San Jacinto or, as La Perouse called it, St. Hyacinthe. Nathaniel Portlock named it ""Pitt Island"" (Wagner, 1937, p. 485). The early Russian traders called it ""Sitka Island,"" but in 1805 Captain U. T. Lisianski, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), named it ""Crooze Island,"" after a Russian admiral. or Krusow Island."" p. 384)." |
| Borough: | Sitka Borough |
| Latitude: | 57.1705551147 |
| Longitude: | -135.674728394 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Kruzof Island: Kruzof 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 Kruzof Island does not include property ownership information.
