Alaska Gazetteer
Dixon Entrance is a cultural feature (channel) in Ketchikan Gateway Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Dixon Entrance |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Cultural |
| Class: | Channel |
| Description: | Located between Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada and Alexander Archipelago. |
| History: | "Named in 1787 by Sir Joseph Banks for Captain George Dixon, who visited it and called it ""Dixons Straits"" (Wagner, 1937, p. 385). Baker (1906, p. 220) says ""Dixon's Entrance was discovered by the Spaniards (probably Juan Perez), in 1774, and called Entrada de Perez (Perez Entrance). Meares at about the same time named it Douglass Entrance, after Captain William Douglass (or Douglas)"" * * * To its northeastern part he applied the name Buccleugh Sound, which he also spelled Bucclugh * * *."" The Tlingit Indian name was published in Russian as Prol (iv) Kaygany, or ""Kaygany Strait,"" by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 9). The name ""Proliv Granitsy,"" meaning ""boundary strait,"" was published for this feature in 1853 on Russian Hydrographic Dept. Chart 1493. See Wagner (1937, p. 461-Hancocks Straits). (AK-T1)" |
| Borough: | Ketchikan Gateway Borough |
| Latitude: | 54.7166671753 |
| Longitude: | -131.521392822 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Dixon Entrance: Dixon Entrance.
