Description
Located in Sitka Sound, Galankin Islands, 3.2 km (2 mi) S of Sitka, Alex. Arch.
History
Named in 1809 by Russian navigator Ivan Vasiliev the First, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN); an Eskimo name for a small skin boat, published as "O(strova) Kaya," by Lieutenant Sarichev (1826, map 19), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN).