Forrester Island (Alaska) Explained

Forrester Island (Haida: Gasḵúu) is an island in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located off the coast of the Alaska Panhandle, near its southernmost portion, west of Dall Island, in the Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area. The island is long and covers an area of 10.29km2.[1] [2] It is wooded and mountainous, rising 814feet in elevation.[3] In 1970, the area was designated the Forrester Island Wilderness, with 2832acres in the National Wilderness Preservation System.[4] [5] It is part of the Gulf of Alaska unit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.

Forrester Island was originally named "Santa Cristina" by Juan Pérez in 1774. In 1775, Francisco Antonio Maurelle labeled the island "San Carlos", and in 1778 William Douglas named it "Douglas Island". Royal Navy officer George Dixon named the island "Forrester Island" in 1787, which was the name adopted by George Vancouver on the Vancouver Expedition in 1793.[6] In 1912, U.S. President William Howard Taft signed a law creating the Forrester Island Refuge, which included Forrester Island, Lowrie Island and Wolf Rock. The island hosts rookeries of Steller sea lions.[7] The longest recorded migration of a Steller sea lion was between Forrester Island and Cape Newenham in Bristol Bay.[8]

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  1. Web site: GEOGRAPHIC IDENTIFIERS: 2010 Census Summary File 1: Block 3471, Block Group 3, Census Tract 1, Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Alaska . . August 21, 2013 . https://archive.today/20200212200938/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/1000000US021980001003471. dead. February 12, 2020.
  2. . DC10BLK_C02198_027 . April 5, 2011 . August 21, 2013.
  3. Book: BookletChart: Hecate Strait to Etolin Island: NOAA Chart 17420. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. August 20, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130222160400/http://ocsdata.ncd.noaa.gov/BookletChart/17420_BookletChart.pdf. 22 February 2013.
  4. Web site: September 8, 2008 . Refuge Establishment . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130624191258/http://alaskamaritime.fws.gov/establishment.htm . June 24, 2013 . August 20, 2013 . U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
  5. Web site: Forrester Island Wilderness . dead . Wilderness.net.
  6. 1422006 . Forrester Island . August 21, 2013.
  7. Book: Jemison, Lauri . Trip Report: Sightings of Branded Steller Sea Lions In Southeast Alaska and Northern British Columbia 10–25 July & 22–30 August, 2006 . . 2006 . August 20, 2013.
  8. Web site: Steller Sea Lion (Eumetopias jubatus) . . August 20, 2013.

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