Kutkan Island

Kutkan Island is an islet in Sitka, Southeastern Alaska.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Saint Michael’s Russian Orthodox Church and Sitka National Historical Park.

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.

Sitka National Historical Park

Park

Photo: Lordkinbote, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Sitka National Historical Park is a national historical park in Sitka, Alaska. It was redesignated as a national historical park from its previous status as national monument on October 18, 1972.

Sitka Public Library

Library

Sitka Public Library is the public library for Sitka, Alaska. It receives about 100,000 guests annually and houses a collection of 75,000 books, audiobooks, music recordings, reference resources, videos as well as an assortment of Alaskan and national periodicals.

Kutkan Island

Type: Islet
Also known as: “Garden Islet”, “Gull Island”, “Kuch-Kan Island”, “Kuchkan Island”, “Kukh-Kan Island”, “Kukhkan Island”, “Ostrov Stanovoy”, “Popoff Island”, and “Stanovoi Islet”
Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
Location: Sitka, Southeastern Alaska, Alaska, United States, North America
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Latitude

57.04011° or 57° 2′ 24″ north

Longitude

-135.32821° or 135° 19′ 42″ west

Elevation

-7 feet (-2 metres)

Open location code

94962MRC+2P

OpenStreetMap ID

way 15752563

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=coastline

OpenStreetMap feature

place=islet

GeoNames ID

5554790

Wikidata ID

Q49649811

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Kutkan Island” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Kutkan Island”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Goddard Hot Springs and Baranof Warm Springs.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Breast Island and Morne Island.

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