Yakobi Island
Yakobi Island location is just off the western edge of Chichagof Island.
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Geography
Coordinates57°59′16″N 136°28′30″W / 57.98778°N 136.47500°W / 57.98778; -136.47500
Administration
StateAlaska
BoroughUnorganized Borough
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Time zone
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ZIP code99901 ... 99950
Area code+1 907

Yakobi Island (Russian: Якоби) is an uninhabited island in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska, United States. It lies to the south of Cross Sound and just off the western edge of Chichagof Island, separated from it by Lisianski Inlet and Lisianski Strait. The island has a land area of 82.37 sq mi (213.3 km2) and no permanent resident population.

Yakobi Island was named by Baranov after Ivan Iakobi, the governor-general of Irkutsk and Kolyvan. The Tlingit name for the island is Takhanes.[1][2]

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References

  1. ^ Dauenhauer, Nora Marks; Dauenhauer, Richard; Black, Lydia T. (2008). Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká, Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 and 1804. Seattle: University of Washington Press. pp. XXVI. ISBN 978-0-295-98601-2.
  2. ^ "Yakobi Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2018-05-22.



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