Description
Sail Island is located in Stephens Passage, 5 mi. NE of The Brothers and 66 mi. E of Sitka, Alex. Arch.
History
Named "Ship Island" by Lieutenant Commander R. W. Meade, U.S. Navy (USN), and published in 1869 on Hydrographic Chart 225. The name, "Sail Island," was published by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) in the 1891 Coast Pilot (p. 143).