Sitka Sound is a body of water near the city of Sitka, Alaska. It is bordered by Baranof Island to the south and the northeast, by Kruzof Island to the northwest and by the Pacific Ocean to the southwest. During the early 19th century it was a major locus of the maritime fur trade.
SitkaSound is a body of water near the city of Sitka, Alaska. It is bordered by Baranof Island to the south and the northeast, by Kruzof Island to the...
The SitkaSound Science Center is a non-profit dedicated to research and education in Alaska in Sitka, Alaska. It is based in the Sage Building, which...
island. On 7 July 1799, Baranov, with 100 fellow Russians, sailed into SitkaSound aboard the galley Olga, the brig Ekaterina, the packet boat Orel; and...
land from the Tlingit and built a fort and settlement on Sitka Island overlooking SitkaSound, the Tlingit believed that land could not be owned, therefore...
behind the Sitka Fine Arts Camp. In addition to the fine arts camp, the Sheldon Jackson Museum, the SitkaSound Science Center, the Sitka Summer Music...
Picea sitchensis, the Sitka spruce, is a large, coniferous, evergreen tree growing to almost 100 meters (330 ft) tall, with a trunk diameter at breast...
Baranov, hired in 1790 to manage Shelikhov's fur enterprise, sailed into SitkaSound and claimed it for Russia. Hunting-parties arrived in the following years...
Emil Sitka (December 22, 1914 – January 16, 1998) was an American actor who appeared in hundreds of movies, short films, and television shows, and who...
Ditching in SitkaSound, Alaska October 22, 1962. Washington, DC: Civil Aeronautics Board. 19 September 1963. p. 1. "DC-7 Ditches in Sea Near Sitka; All Safe"...
Ditching in SitkaSound, Alaska October 22, 1962. Washington, DC: Civil Aeronautics Board. September 19, 1963. p. 1. "DC-7 Ditches In Sea Near Sitka; All Safe"...
Bay, Tomales Bay, Half Moon Bay, Humboldt Bay all in California, and SitkaSound, Alaska. In other areas, such as Auke Bay, Alaska, which in the late...
William Sound during 1917–1923, the Kodiak Island Archipelago in 1924 and 1930, Yakutat in 1924, and the Skagway and Haines area during the 1950s. Sitka deer...
Japan(cf. kazunoko under #Japan). The indigenous people (Tlingit) of the SitkaSound had traditionally collected and eaten herring roe. (cf. also #Canada)...
and Washington, and SitkaSound. James Cook of the British Royal Navy explored the Pacific Northwest coast, including Nootka Sound, in 1778. His journals...
Canada 1984 Science World (Vancouver) Vancouver Canada 1989 SitkaSound Science Center Sitka, Alaska United States 2007 The Tech Interactive San Jose, California...
wolves, Grizzly bears, black bears, Alaskan moose, red foxes, elk, muskoxen, sitka black tailed deer, Porcupine caribou, Canadian lynxes, bald eagles, great...
in the city of Sitka one at the SitkaSound Science Center, and another in the Sawmill Cove Business Park; the other just south of Sitka near Medvejie...
Company's sea otter skins came from the SitkaSound area, amounting to several thousand per year. SitkaSound was also where serious competition between...
including the mouth of the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington, and SitkaSound. Vancouver Island came to the attention of Britain after the third voyage...
40 km (25 mi) northwest of the city of Sitka, and within the limits of Sitka City and Borough. Salisbury Sound was named by Captain Nathaniel Portlock...
coast of North America from Baja California north to SitkaSound. The type locality is in Puget Sound opposite Fort Nisqually. It grows on rocks in semi-exposed...
quotas at the main fisheries (mostly targeting roe herring) in 2022 were: SitkaSound, late March,45,164 short tons (41,000 t; 90 million pounds), Kodiak Island...
in the field of ecology. Skaggs Alaska Scientist in Residence at the SitkaSound Science Center, 2014 Idaho State University Distinguished Researcher...
American, British and French fur-trading vessels had frequented Norfolk Sound (SitkaSound) before Russia had ever extended its claim eastward; the British pointed...
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