Description
N point of entrance to Redoubt Bay, 7.5 mi. SW of Sitka, on W coast of Baranof I.; Alex. Arch.
History
named in 1809 by the Russian navigator Ivan Vasiliev the first; published by Lieutenant Sarichev (1826, map 19), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as "M(ys) Poyorotnoy," meaning "turnabout island."