Description
W of Baranof I. and 10 mi. NW of Sitka; Alex. Arch.
History
the Tlingit Indian name for this island was recorded in 1849 by Captain Tevenov (1852, map 7), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as "O(strov) Tlikh." After 1775, when Don Juan de la Bodega y Quadra named Mount Edgecumbe "Montana de San Jacinto," the island became known as San Jacinto or, as La Perouse called it, St. Hyacinthe. Nathaniel Portlock named it "Pitt Island" (Wagner, 1937, p. 485). The early Russian traders called it "Sitka Island," but in 1805 Captain U. T. Lisianski, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), named it "Crooze Island," after a Russian admiral. or Krusow Island." p. 384).