Description
1.5 mi. NNW of Sitka, on Baranof I., 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, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN); reported by Lieutenant Sarichev (1826, map 19), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as "Gora Gavanskaya," meaning "harbor mountain."