Description
3 mi. N of Sitka Sound, off NW coast of Baranof I., Alex. Arch. 4 miles wide.
History
Name meaning "cross," given in 1833 by the navigator Ensign Vasiliev; published in 1848 as "Pro(oliv) Krestovskiy" on Russian Hydrographic Dept. 1397. See Hayward Strait Olga Strait.