Harris Island

Harris Island is an island in , .
  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in Sitka City and Borough, Alaska, United States
  • Also known as: “Harris Islet”

Places of Interest

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

Park
Photo: Lordkinbote, CC BY-SA 2.5.
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.

Church
Photo: Barek, Public domain.
St. Michael's Cathedral is a cathedral of the , at Lincoln and Maksoutoff Streets in , . 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.

Library
is the public library for Sitka, . 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.

Harris Island

Latitude
57.03453° or 57° 2′ 4″ north
Longitude
-135.2775° or 135° 16′ 39″ west
Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)
Open location code
94962PMF+R2
Open­Street­Map ID
way 299536983
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
5846979
Wiki­data ID
Q49640435
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Satellite Map

Discover Harris Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

“Harris Island” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Harris Island (pulo sa Estados Unidos, Alaska, Sitka City and Borough)”
  • Cebuano: “Harris Island”

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