Description
Knight Island is located on E shore of Yakutat Bay, 12 mi. NE of Yakutat, St. Elias Mts.
History
Named "Knight's Island" in 1794 by Lieutenant Peter Puget (in Vancouver, 1798, v. 3, p. 226), RN, probably for Sir John Knight, RN, who had been a fellow prisoner with Lieutenant W. R. Broughton, commander of the Chatham, in America in 1777, during the Revolutionary War (Wagner, 1937, p. 394). It was called "O(strov) Dalniy," meaning "distant island," by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 7), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), and "Dalni Island" by W. H. Dall in 1883 Coast Pilot (p. 210).