4859 x 3240 px | 41,1 x 27,4 cm | 16,2 x 10,8 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
17. Mai 2010
Ort:
Inside Passage, Alaska, USA, United States, America
Weitere Informationen:
Baranof Island, also sometimes called Baranov Island, Shee or Sitka Island, is an island in the northern Alexander Archipelago in the Alaska Panhandle, in Alaska. The name Baranof was given in 1805 by Imperial Russian Navy captain U. F. Lisianski to honor Alexander Andreyevich Baranov. It was called Sheet’-ká X'áat'l (often expressed simply as "Shee"[2]) by the native Tlingit people. Almost the entire area of the island is part of the City and Borough of Sitka (Sitka also extends northward onto Chichagof Island); the only part of Baranof that is not in Sitka is a tiny sliver of land (9.75 km²) at the extreme southeast corner, which is in the Petersburg Census Area, and includes the town of Port Alexander. The Inside Passage is a coastal route for oceangoing vessels along a series of passages between the Pacific coast of North America and nearby islands. Most of the route is in Alaska in the United States and British Columbia in Canada, with a small southern part in northwestern Washington state. Ships using the route can avoid some of the bad weather in the open ocean and may visit some of the many isolated communities along the route. The term "Inside Passage" is also often used to refer to the ocean and islands around the passage itself. The Inside Passage is also sometimes referred to as the "Inland Passage" which is in turn a reference to early explorers' quests to locate the Northwest Passage between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.
