Minett Island
Minett Islet is a small islet in Jamestown Bay, Sitka Sound in Alaska. It is named for United States Navy officer and Governor of American Samoa Henry Minett.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Sitka City and Borough, Alaska, United States
- Also known as: “Minett Islet”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sitka National Historical Park and Cathedral of Saint Michael the Archangel.
Sitka National Historical Park
Park
Photo: Lordkinbote, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Sitka National Historical Park is a national historical park in Sitka in the U.S. state of Alaska. It was redesignated as a national historical park from its previous status as national monument on October 18, 1972.
Cathedral of Saint Michael the Archangel
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.
Russian Mission Orphanage
Museum
Photo: Lordkinbote, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Russian Bishop's House, once the Russian Mission Orphanage, is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark at Lincoln and Monastery Streets in Sitka, Alaska.
Minett Island
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Sitka, Southeastern Alaska, Alaska, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.04152° or 57° 2′ 30″ northLongitude
-135.29324° or 135° 17′ 36″ westOpen location code
94962PR4+JPOpenStreetMap ID
way 1157989057OpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
5555765Wikidata ID
Q6864563
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
“Minett Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Minett Island”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Minett Island”. Photo: Henry P. Gray, CC BY-SA 3.0.