Description
Povorotni Island is located in Peril Strait, at SW end of Deadman Reach, off N coast of Baranof I., Alex. Arch.
History
Russian name meaning turnabout, given in 1833 by the navigator Ensign Vasiliev; published in 1848 on Russian Hydrographic Dept. Chart 1397 as Os (trov) Povorotnyy.