Description
16 mi. NW of Sitka, between Partishkof I. and NW coast of Baranof I.; Alex. Arch.
History
named in 1804 by Captain U. T. Lisianski, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), for his vessel the Neva. and included the water now known as "Olga Strait." Neva Strait is the Olga Strait of the Russian chart of 1809, but not of M. D. Tebenkov." (U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1883, p. 156.)