Description
Passage Islands is located in Middle Channel, Sitka Sound, 2 mi. SW of Sitka; 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 first; reported by Lieutenant Sarichev (1826, map 19), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as "O(strov) Prokhoda." islands were called "Goloy," meaning "bare" by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 38), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN).