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Baranof Island [a] is an island in the northern Alexander Archipelago in the Alaska Panhandle, in Alaska. The name "Baranof" was given to the island in 1805 by Imperial Russian Navy captain U. F. Lisianski in honor of Alexander Andreyevich Baranov. [1] It was called Sheet’-ká X'áat'l (often expressed simply as "Shee" [2]) by the native ...
Most of the islands' area is federally protected wilderness. The city of Sitka has its urban center on the west coast of Baranof Island. Outside of Sitka, there is only minimal industry and human presence on the islands, despite the fact that Admiralty (7th), Baranof (10th), and Chichagof (5th) are among the largest islands in the United States.
Baranof Warm Springs is a small, primarily seasonally-occupied community located in the city and borough of Sitka, Alaska, on the eastern side of Baranof Island, from which it likely derives its name, [1] in the Alexander Archipelago. It is occasionally referred to simply as Baranof.
Shee Káx’ comes from “Shee” which is the original name of Baranof Island. Káx’ is “above”, a locative description. The strait was named Proliv Pogibshy by Russians because of a fatal incident during a fur seal hunting expedition led by Alexander Baranof in 1799.
The following is a partial list of geographic features on Baranof Island: Lakes. Baranof Lake; Blue Lake; Camp Lake; Green Lake; Indigo Lake; Medvejie Lake; Redoubt Lake;
Redoubt Lake, or Kunaa Shak Áayi, [2] is a long, narrow lake on Baranof Island, near Sitka, Alaska. It is located in a glacially-carved valley in Tongass National Forest. It was named Ozero Glubokoye, meaning "deep lake", in 1809 by the Russian navigator Ivan Vasilyev. [3] Redoubt Lake is one of the largest meromictic lakes in North America ...
Port Alexander is located at the southeastern end of Baranof Island.It occupies all land on Baranof and its surrounding islets which lies south of 56.27°N and east of 134.6666°W, a total of 3.8 square miles (9.8 km 2), or less than one-quarter of one percent of Baranof Island's land area.
The South Baranof Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area within the Tongass National Forest, located on Baranof Island, Alaska. Covering 319,568 acres south of Sitka , the South Baranof protects glacier-carved fjords, hanging valleys, old-growth temperate rainforests and sheer granite mountains.