Southeast Alaska · AK
Sitka
Russian America's capital, where Alaska changed hands.
- Population
- 8,458 (2020 census)
- Battle of Sitka
- 1804
- Transfer
- October 18, 1867
Then
- 1802
Tlingit warriors destroy the first Russian fort.
- 1804
After the Battle of Sitka, the Russians build New Archangel.
- 1808
It becomes the capital of Russian America.
- 1867
Alaska is transferred to the US here on October 18.
Now
Sitka is the largest US city by area, under the Mount Edgecumbe volcano. This place covers Sitka Sound and Baranof's outer coast north to Slocum Arm and Klag Bay.
18 tide stations around Sitka
- Sitka0.5 mi
- Olga Point, Olga Strait14.4 mi
- Symonds Bay, Biorka Island15.3 mi
- Whitestone Narrows, Neva Strait16.2 mi
- Golf Island, Necker Island18.6 mi
- Scraggy Island24.3 mi
- Scraggy Point24.5 mi
- Haley Anchorage, Fish Bay24.5 mi
- Dorothy Cove, Necker Bay24.8 mi
- Bear Bay26.9 mi
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- Serguis Narrows27.0 mi
- Point Elizabeth32.1 mi
- Klokachef Island32.7 mi
- Povorotni Island, Pogibshi Point33.0 mi
- Nismeni Cove35.3 mi
- Falcon Arm, Slocum Arm41.1 mi
- Elbow Passage, Klag Bay47.9 mi
- Kimshan Cove, Ogden Passage52.5 mi