Sergief Island
  Sergief | |
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| Location | Pacific Ocean |
| Archipelago | Alexander Archipelago |
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United States | |
| State | Alaska |
| Borough | Wrangell |
Sergief Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago, Alaska, located east of Mitkof Island and north of Kadin Island near the mouth of the Stikine River.[1] It lies within the Tongass National Forest. The USDA Forest Service operates 2 cabins on the island.[2]
The island was given the named Sergief by the Russian naval officers on the corvette Rynda in 1863 after one of the sailors drowned in the Sergief rapids.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Swarth, Harry Schelwald (1922). Birds and Mammals of the Stikine River Region of Northern British Columbia and Southeastern Alaska. University of California Press. pp. 140–141.
- ^ "Sergief Island". Audubon Alaska. 2019-11-08. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
- ^ Baker, Marcus (1906). Geographic Dictionary of Alaska. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 562.
56°35′41″N 132°25′30″W / 56.594700°N 132.424869°W
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