Southeast Alaska · AK
Port Alexander
An old trolling boomtown at the tip of Baranof Island.
- Population
- 78 (2020 census)
- Fishing boom
- 1913
- Incorporated
- 1938
Then
- 1794
Vancouver's men find empty Native houses in Ship Cove.
- 1913
Large-scale fishing begins, with an estimated 700 boats.
- 1938
Port Alexander incorporates on May 5.
- 1955
After the fishing decline, it is called a ghost settlement.
Now
The town museum is on the National Register, and the historical society owns the Cape Decision Lighthouse. This place covers Port Walter and southern Kuiu Island across Chatham Strait.
15 tide stations around Port Alexander
- Port Alexander, Baranof Islandin town
- Port Walter, Baranof Island9.8 mi
- Port Malmesbury, Kuiu Island16.2 mi
- Table Bay, Kuiu Island16.5 mi
- Kell Bay, Affleck Canal, Kuiu Island20.9 mi
- Tebenkof Bay, Kuiu Island22.8 mi
- Port McArthur, Kuiu Island24.0 mi
- Affleck Canal entrance, Kuiu Island25.2 mi
- Port Beauclerc, Kuiu Island26.4 mi
- Point St. Albans28.5 mi
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- Reid Bay30.8 mi
- Coronation Island31.4 mi
- Sumner Island34.6 mi
- Monte Carlo Island39.0 mi
- Port Protection, Prince of Wales Island.40.4 mi