Sergief Island

Sergief
	Sergief
Geography
Location	Pacific Ocean
Archipelago	Alexander Archipelago
Administration
	United States
State	Alaska
Borough	Wrangell

Sergief Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago, Alaska, located east of Mitkof Island and north of Kadin Island near the mouth of the Stikine River.^[1] It lies within the Tongass National Forest. The USDA Forest Service operates 2 cabins on the island.^[2]

The island was given the named Sergief by the Russian naval officers on the corvette Rynda in 1863 after one of the sailors drowned in the Sergief rapids.^[3]

References[edit]

^ Swarth, Harry Schelwald (1922). Birds and Mammals of the Stikine River Region of Northern British Columbia and Southeastern Alaska. University of California Press. pp. 140–141.
^ "Sergief Island". Audubon Alaska. 2019-11-08. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
^ Baker, Marcus (1906). Geographic Dictionary of Alaska. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 562.

56°35′41″N 132°25′30″W / 56.594700°N 132.424869°W / 56.594700; -132.424869

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[1] Swarth, Harry Schelwald (1922). Birds and Mammals of the Stikine River Region of Northern British Columbia and Southeastern Alaska. University of California Press. pp. 140–141.

[2] "Sergief Island". Audubon Alaska. 2019-11-08. Retrieved 2023-11-08.

[3] Baker, Marcus (1906). Geographic Dictionary of Alaska. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 562.

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