Noyes Island
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Noyes Island is located in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, United States. It is located west of Prince of Wales Island. It was named in 1879 by William Healy Dall of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey after William M. Noyes, also of the USC&GS, who was stationed in Alaska from 1873 to 1880.[1] The first European to notice the island was Aleksei Chirikov in 1741.[2]
References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Noyes Island
- ^ Golder, Frank Alfred and Leonhard Stejneger (1922). Bering’s voyages: an account of the efforts of the Russians to determine the relation of Asia and America. New York: American Geographical Society. p. 36.
bering 1741 voyage.
55°29′51″N 133°40′16″W / 55.49750°N 133.67111°W
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