Description
Jarvis Island is located near entrance to Twelvemile Arm Kasaan Bay, on E coast of Prince of Wales I., Alex. Arch.
History
Named for Lieutenant Daniel Henry Jarvis, U.S. Revenue-Cutter Service (USRCS), commander of the revenue cutter Bear, who conducted an overland expedition for the relief of the whalin g fleet imprisoned by the ice in the vicinity of Point Barrow in 1897-1898; published in 1910 by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS).