Description
3 mi. W of Chichigof, on W coast of Chichagof I.; Alex. Arch.
History
named by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) for Captain Herbert Cornelius Graves, 1869-1919, hydrographic and geodetic engineer of U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), who died in 1919 while in England on an important offical mission to that country. and Topography, was, for 5 years preceeding his death, in direct charge of U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) work in Alaska. the island, was reported by Overbeck (1919, pl. 2), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).