Baranof Island
Baranof Island is an island in the northern Alexander Archipelago in the Alaska Panhandle, in Alaska. The name "Baranof" was given to the island in 1805 by Imperial Russian Navy captain U.
NASA, Public domain.- Island
- …has about 8,530 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 3,030 feet (920 metres)
- Description: island in Sitka City and Borough, Alaska, United States
- Also known as“Baranoff Island”“Baranoffs Island”“Baranow Island”“Baronoff Island”“Ostrov Sitkha”“Shi”
- Category: landform
- Location
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Latitude
56.95139° or 56° 57′ 5″ north
Longitude
-134.94778° or 134° 56′ 52″ west
Open location code
9487X322+HV
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Baranof Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بارانوف”
- Arabic: “جزيرة بارانوف”
- Asturian: “Baranof”
- Azerbaijani: “Baranov adası”
- Basque: “Baranof uhartea”
- Belarusian: “Баранава востраў”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Баранава”
- Belarusian: “востраў Сітка”
- Belarusian: “Сітка”
- Bulgarian: “Баранов (остров)”
- Bulgarian: “Баранов”
- Catalan: “Baranof”
- Cebuano: “Baranof Island”
- Chinese: “巴拉諾夫島”
- Dutch: “Baranof Island”
- Dutch: “Baranofeiland”
- Estonian: “Baranof”
- Estonian: “Baranofi saar”
- Estonian: “Baranovi saar”
- Estonian: “Sheet’-ká X’áat’l”
- Estonian: “Sitka saar”
- Finnish: “Baranof Island”
- Finnish: “Baranofinsaari”
- Finnish: “Baranov Island”
- Finnish: “Sitka Island”
- French: “Île Baranof”
- French: “Île Baranov”
- French: “Île de Baranof”
- French: “Île Sitka”
- French: “Sitcha”
- Galician: “Baranof”
- Galician: “Illa de Baranof”
- German: “Baranof Island”
- German: “Baranov Island”
- German: “Sitka Island”
- Greek: “Μπάρανοφ”
- Hebrew: “בראנוף”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Baranof”
- Italian: “Baranof Island”
- Italian: “isola Baranof”
- Italian: “Isola Baranoff”
- Italian: “Isola Baranov”
- Japanese: “バラノフ島”
- Latvian: “Baranova sala”
- Lithuanian: “Baranovo sala”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Baranof Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Baranof Island”
- Polish: “Wyspa Baranowa”
- Portuguese: “Baranof”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Baranof”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Baranof”
- Russian: “Остров Баранова”
- Russian: “остров Ситка”
- Russian: “Ситка (остров)”
- Serbian: “Baranof Island”
- Serbian: “Барановљево острво”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Baranof”
- Spanish: “Isla Baranof”
- Spanish: “Isla Baránov”
- Spanish: “Isla de Baranof”
- Swedish: “Baranof Island”
- Swedish: “Baranof”
- Turkish: “Baranof Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Баранова”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ بارانوف”
- Uzbek: “Baranof oroli”
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