Grave Island

Grave Island is an islet in Petersburg Borough, Alaska. Grave Island is situated nearby to the village Kake.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kake Seaplane Base and Kake Airport.

Kake Seaplane Base

Aerodrome

Kake Seaplane Base is a public-use seaplane base located in Kake, a city in the Petersburg Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. Scheduled airline passenger service is subsidized by the U.S.

Kake Airport

Aerodrome

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Kake Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile southeast of the central business district of Kake, a city in the Petersburg Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska.

Kake Cannery

Building

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The Kake Cannery is a historic fish processing facility near Kake, Alaska. Operated by a variety of companies between 1912 and 1977, the cannery was one of many which operated in Southeast Alaska, an area historically rich in salmon.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kake.

Kake

Village

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Kake is a first-class city in Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Alaska, United States. As of the 2020 census, Kake had a population of 543. The name comes from the Tlingit word Ḵéix̱ʼ or Ḵéex̱ʼ, which is derived from ḵée 'dawn, daylight' and x̱ʼé 'mouth', i.e.

Grave Island

Type: Islet
Description: island in Petersburg Census Area, United States of America
Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
Location: Petersburg Borough, Alaska, United States, North America
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Latitude

56.95927° or 56° 57′ 33″ north

Longitude

-133.95052° or 133° 57′ 2″ west

Open location code

9488X25X+PQ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 833081157

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=coastline

OpenStreetMap feature

place=islet

GeoNames ID

5846786

Wikidata ID

Q49639563

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Grave Island” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Grave Island (pulo sa Estados Unidos, Alaska, Petersburg Census Area)”
Cebuano: “Grave Island”

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