Kruzof Island
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Kruzof Island (Template:Langx) is an island in the Alexander Archipelago in southeastern Alaska. It is about Template:Convert west of Sitka, and is part of the City and Borough of Sitka. It was named in 1805 by Captain U.T. Lisianski as Crooze Island,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> after a Russian Admiral.<ref name=Orth>Template:Cite book</ref> It hosts the region's only volcano, Mount Edgecumbe.
In 1849, Captain Tebenkov recorded the Tlingit name for the island as being Tlikh.<ref name=Orth/>
Naming history
Before being named by Lisianski, it was called San Jacinto after its highest point, Mount Edgecumbe, was named Montaña de San Jacinto by Don Juan de la Bodega y Quadra in 1775. La Pérouse referred to that name by calling the island St. Hyacinthe.<ref name=Orth/> Captain Nathaniel Portlock named the island Pitt Island in 1787.<ref name=Orth/><ref name=Portlock>Template:Cite book</ref> Early Russian traders called it Sitka Island. In 1849, Constantin Grewingk called the island Edgecumbe.<ref name=Orth/> It later became known as Kruzow Island before finally becoming Kruzof Island.<ref name=alaskashipwrecksw>alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (W)</ref>
Geography
The island is Template:Convert long and Template:Convert wide with a land area of Template:Convert, making it the 41st largest island in the United States. The island is formed in part by Mount Edgecumbe, a small, dormant<ref name=Woolsey/> stratovolcano, and several volcanic cones and collapsed cones that make up its volcanic field.
Human importance
Kruzof Island does not have a permanent resident population.<ref>Kruzof Island: Blocks 1014 and 1015, Census Tract 1, Sitka City and Borough, Alaska United States Census Bureau</ref> There is a maintained trail leading from Fred's Creek cabin, a United States Forest Service cabin on the inside coast, to the summit of Mount Edgecumbe, as well as several trails across the island.
In January 1813, the Russian exploration ship Neva wrecked just off the island. The survivors made it to shore and established a camp where they subsisted until rescued about a month later. The site of the wreck, and also the survival camp has since been found.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Kalinin Bay, on the northern shore of the island, provided the name for the World War II United States Navy escort aircraft carrier Template:USS. From the 1950s through the 1970s, forests on Kruzof Island were the source for clearcut timber extraction.<ref name=Woolsey/>