Description
Crosswise Islands is located at mouth of Nakwasina Sound, 9 mi. N of Sitka, NW coast of Baranof I.; Alex. Arch.
History
this is an 1882 translation by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) of the name given in 1809 by the Russian navigator Ivan Vasiliev the frist, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN); reported by Lieutenant Sarichev (1826, map 19), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as "Ostrov Poperechnoy."