Japonski Island
Japonski Island is a small island in the city of Sitka in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska, United States. It lies across the Sitka Channel from Sitka's central business district.- Type: Island
- Description: island in Sitka City and Borough, Alaska, United States
- Also known as: “Japanese Island”, “Jeponski Island”, “Ostrov Yaponskoy”, and “Yaponskoi Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saint Michael’s Russian Orthodox Church and Castle Hill.
Saint Michael’s Russian Orthodox Church
Church
Photo: Barek, Public domain.
St. Michael's Cathedral is a cathedral of the Orthodox Church in America Diocese of Alaska, at Lincoln and Maksoutoff Streets in Sitka, Alaska. The earliest Orthodox cathedral in the New World, it was built in the nineteenth century, when Alaska was under the control of Russia, though this structure burned down in 1966.
Castle Hill
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Castle Hill also known as the American Flag-Raising Site and now as the Baranof Castle State Historic Site, is a National Historic Landmark and state park in Sitka, Alaska.
Sheet’ká Ḵwáan Naa Kahídi
Community center
The Sheet'ká Ḵwáan Naa Kahídi is a performance venue and meeting space modelled after a Tlingit clan house in Sitka, Alaska. Its capacity is 300 people.
Japonski Island
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Sitka, Southeastern Alaska, Alaska, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.04791° or 57° 2′ 53″ northLongitude
-135.35873° or 135° 21′ 31″ westElevation
23 feet (7 metres)Open location code
94962JXR+5GOpenStreetMap ID
way 15682721OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
5553938Wikidata ID
Q6159341
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Satellite Map
Discover Japonski Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Turkish—“Japonski Island” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Yaponski adası”
- Cebuano: “Japonski Island”
- Chinese: “日本岛”
- Dutch: “Japonski Island”
- Japanese: “ヤポンスキー島”
- Russian: “Японский”
- Turkish: “Japonski Adası”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Goddard Hot Springs and Baranof Warm Springs.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sealing Cove Harbor and Sitka Naval Operating Base (historical).
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