Description
Escape Cape is located on E shore of Port Krestof, on E coast of Kruzof I.; Alex. Arch.
History
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) derived this name about 1882 from translation of part of "Mys Koloshskoy Strechi," meaning "cape Koloshian-escape"; published by Lieutenant Sarichev (1826, map 19), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN); given in 1809 by the navigator Ivan Vasiliev the first. name for the Tlingit Indians.