and branches extend into both entrances of Sitkalidak Strait and toward Sitkinak Strait. A very regular trough, northeastward of Albatross bank, leads directly from seaward to Chiniak Bay.

A depth of 812 fathoms (15.8 m) rocky bottom is located in latitude 56°22.5' N. longitude 152°56.5' W. on Albatross Bank.

Canneries are located at Shearwater Bay, Lazy Bay, and Olga Bay. There is a whaling station at Port Hobron.

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Cape Greville (chart 8535), 2 miles southward of Cape Chiniak (p. 185), is fronted by several rocky islets. Broken bottom extends 3/4 mile in a northeasterly direction from the cape. In approaching from the vicinity of Ugak Island, Cape Greville should not be mistaken for Cape Chiniak.

The land is thickly wooded for about 5 miles southward from Cape Chiniak, then to Narrow Cape it is bare except for scrubby brush in the gulches and valleys and some grass and scattered clumps of small spruce trees on the lower slopes.

A 10-fathom (18.3 m) bank is located 81/4 mile 166° true from Cape Greville.

Eight miles southward from Cape Chiniak the shore bends westward to meet a valley that terminates in a sand beach. Northward from here the shore is marked with sunken rocks and rocks awash to a distance of 1/2 mile offshore; southward to a distance of 1 mile offshore, with thick kelp in the vicinity of Narrow Cape. Outside these areas the bottom consists chiefly of sand and gravel with some rocky sections off the points. No anchorages are recommended along this coast.

Narrow Cape is 13 miles southward from Cape Chiniak. Its southeast face is an abrupt grass-topped cliff about 100 feet high and 1% miles long. The cape is flat-but gradually drops close to sea level about 1/4 mile back of the cliff, giving the cape the appearance of an island when seen from the vicinity of Cape Chiniak. From this low part, grassy slopes with a few scattered spruce trees roll gradually upward to the mountains north of Ugak Bay. Reefs and sunken rocks extend 1/4 mile off the points of the cape.

UGAK ISLAND (chart 8535) lies 211⁄2 miles off Narrow Cape. A ridge over 1,000 feet (305 m) runs the full length of the island close to the offshore side. From well out to sea, Ugak island is generally readily discernable against the distant background of higher mountains. The shore is steep and rocky and fringed with rocks and reefs, except at the northwest end where a grassy slope spotted with a few scattered spruces descends gradually to a sand spit. Several shacks of a fox farm are built near the spit.

Across the passage between Ugak Island and Narrow Cape, a bar composed of rock and hard sand extends from the sand spit on the island to the southern tip of Narrow Cape. The least depth found near the middle of the passage on the bar is 62 fathoms (11.9 m). Although not wire dragged, the passage is considered safe for moderate-sized vessels and is regularly used by fishing boats and whalers of from 8 to 10 feet (2.4 to 3 m) draft. Tide rips are experienced, particularly on and near the bar, except at slack water. These rips increase with strong northeast winds, producing breakers and causing the false impression that the passage is foul. At such time the passage is dangerous for small craft.

Currents. The current floods in a northeasterly direction through the passage between Ugak Island and Narrow Cape. There are strong cross currents north and south of Ugak Island and tide rips near the shores.

In going from the passage between Ugak Island and Narrow Cape to Ugak Bay, there are several dangers to be avoided. A rock awash at minus tides lies 3/4 mile southwest of the southern tip of Narrow Cape. A rocky shoal of 4 fathoms (7.3 m) lies 11% miles southeastward of Pasagshak Point. A 1/2-fathom (0.9 m) rock lies 1 mile southeastward of the 127-foot (39 m) island inside Ugak Bay entrance.

UGAK BAY (chart 8535) has its entrance between Pasagshak and Gull Points and extends 19 miles in a general westerly direction, its inner end branching into a basin at the north and a narrow arm at the south. In entering, vessels should pass southward of the 12-fathom (0.9 m) rock lying a little northward of mid entrance. Depths of 40 to 55 fathoms (73 to 101 m) will be found 1 mile off the points along the south shore from the entrance to Saltery Cove, then the bottom abruptly shoals to about 16 fathoms (29.3 m) and deepens again to about 45 fathoms near the junction of the basin and arm at the head of the bay.

Pasagshak Point, 4 miles westward of Narrow Cape, is a prominent, narrow, mountainous headland 894 feet (272 m) high. The point presents the appearance of a pyramid when viewed from a southwest direction.

Pasagshak Bay is rectangular shaped, 1 mile wide at its entrance, and has its eastern side formed by Pasagshak Point. It is shallow a short distance inside and exposed to any existing swell.

The 127-foot (39 m) island off the north shore westward of Pasagshak Bay is rocky and grass-topped. It is surrounded by reef and numerous rocky islets. There is foul ground between the island and the north shore and 114 miles southeastward of the island.

Portage Bay (local name) is the rounded bight 41/2 miles westward of Pasagshak Bay. This bay is identified by a small, flat-topped, sheer-bluff islet 42 feet (12.8 m) in elevation. This islet is located in

the middle of the entrance, and a pinnacle rock 34 feet (10.4 m) in elevation lies 270 yards southwest from it. Both are surrounded by deep water. The bottom has a gentle slope toward the head of the bay.

Saltery Cove, on the north shore of Ugak Bay and 812 miles above the entrance, is a half-moon shaped bight. It is marked on its eastern extremity by a reef point surmounted by a pinnacle rock 32 feet (9.7 m) high. The cove has a gently sloping sand and mud bottom, but shoals abruptly to flats along the shore. A high-water rock lies just outside of the flats near the head of the cove. The recommended anchorage is along the 10-fathom curve near the eastern end of the bight. This is regarded as the best general anchorage in Ugak Bay. Hidden Basin, the northern branch at the head of Ugak Bay, has a slightly curving bottle-neck entrance. The controlling depth through the approach is only 5 feet (1.5 m). The channel is along the western shore of the approach. Strong currents are encountered in the entrance.

The southern branch at the head of Ugak Bay is about 7 miles long and has an average width of 1/2 mile. A rock bare at about 1/2 tide lies near the middle of the constricted part of the arm. The channel lies southward of the rock and may be avoided by keeping 200 yards off the south shore in 10 fathoms (18.3 m).

Eagle Harbor is an open cove on the south side of Ugak Bay, 512 miles from the entrance. Its northwesterly point is marked by two pinnacle rocks. There are several shacks of a deserted village at the northwest shore of the cove. There is no secure anchorage here.

The cove is exposed to easterly swells.

There are portages between Portage Bay and Kalsin Bay, and between Eagle Harbor and Shearwater Bay.

Gull Point and the point 134 miles southward have bold rocky faces with islets of massive rock close by. The small cove on the south shore of Ugak Bay westward of Gull Point provides anchorage for small boats in southerly weather. There is a sand beach at the head.

The cove about 3 miles southward of Gull Point is connected by a tidal channel to a marsh which is flooded at high tide. The bottom at the entrance to the lagoon and along the beach for about 1 mile northward is sandy and apparently free from rocks. A sunken rock having a depth of 212 fathoms (4.6 m) of water over it lies 3/4 mile northeastward from the rocky point at the south end of the cove. The coast southward of the cove to Dangerous Cape is the base of a steep ridge. The coast of Kodiak Island southeastward of Gull Point is practically devoid of trees.

DANGEROUS CAPE (chart 8536) on the southeast coast of Kodiak Island between Ugak and Kiliuda Bays, is the southern end of the ridge described in the previous paragraph. On the south side of the cape is a bluff reaching an elevation of over 500 feet (152 m). A large rock about 30 feet (9.1 m) high lies about 400 yards southward of the cape.

An unwatched light is located on the west side of Dangerous Cape at an elevation of 192 feet (58 m), but it is obscured for vessels approaching the cape from the northeast until the light bears about 305° true.

Boulder Bay, just westward of Dangerous Cape, affords poor anchorage on hard sand bottom. There are numerous rocks lying sev

eral hundred yards offshore. These rocks are mostly submerged or awash at high water, and extreme care should be taken in navigating this bay.

Inner and Outer Right Capes form a double cape lying 311⁄2 to 5 miles southwestward of Dangerous Cape. The outer cape is comparatively low with eroded bluffs about 100 feet (30 m) high; however, there are extensive landslides extending almost to the summit of the mountains along the coast 1 mile northeastward of the outer cape. On a clear day these are recognized a long distance offshore. The inner cape rises to a height of 512 feet (156 m). Broken ground extends about 1 mile offshore between the outer and inner capes.

KILIUDA BAY (chart 8536) has its entrance between Left Cape (p. 194) and Inner Right Cape. It extends about 4 miles in a WNW. direction and then about 6 miles in a WSW. direction.

Indenting the northeast side of Kiliuda Bay are Santa Flavia Bay and Shearwater Bay. The shore between these bays is fringed with islands and rocks.

Kiliuda Rock, 2 feet (0.6 m) above mean high water and about 1 mile westward of Inner Right Cape, is on the range of the tangents of Inner and Outer Right Capes and about on the range of the small points along the western shore of Santa Flavia Bay. The rock is surrounded close to by depths of 17 fathoms (31.1 m).

Santa Flavia Bay, between Inner Right Cape and Ermine Point, is apparently clear in the center with depths of 13 to 15 fathoms (23.8 to 27.4 m) sand bottom, but is exposed to swells and seas accompanying southeasterly weather. Kiliuda Rock should be avoided in entering.

SHEARWATER BAY, the northeast arm of Kiliuda Bay, is about 211⁄2 miles in extent. Rocks awash extend from either side of the entrance. In the entrance channel between the rocks there are depths greater than 20 fathoms (37 m) for a width of 3% mile. The rocks extending 1/4 mile westward of Pillar Point bare at low stages of the tide, and shoal water extends about 200 yards channelward from the outermost rock. Near the outer end of the group of rocks on the northwest side of the entrance, is a dry patch of rock elevated 3 feet (0.9 m) above mean high water. The outermost rock bares at low water and lies 300 yards from the dry patch in a direction toward the head of the bay.

Pillar Point marks the southeastern side of the entrance to Shearwater Bay. A light is established on the islet adjacent to Pillar Point. Bluff Point, 11⁄2 mile farther inside the bay, is marked by the eroding bluff of a knoll which overlooks the lowland back of Pillar Point.

The small enclosure, back of the narrow strip of land at Bluff Point, provides secure shelter for small craft with local knowledge. About 3/4 mile from its head, Shearwater Bay contracts to a width of about 3 mile between Observation Point, the site of a cannery, and the opposing point on the southeast side. Anchorage may be had about 1/4 mile beyond this contraction midway between the shores in about 6 fathoms (11 m), mud bottom, avoiding shoal water extending 200 yards northward of the opposing point and the shoal depths adjacent to the flats along the northwest side at the head of the bay.

The face of the cannery wharf is 140 feet long, the depth alongside is 22 feet (6.7 m). Fresh water is piped to the wharf. Timber skidways for hauling out launches are laid on the beach on the north side of the cannery site. The company operates a machine shop where emergency repairs might be made.

Directions, Shearwater Bay. From the southwestward. Round Cape Barnabas at a distance of 2 miles and make good the following courses: (1) 331° true for 911⁄2 miles to Pillar Point Light bearing 66° true distanct 111⁄2 miles; this course passes 11 miles off Left Cape and heads for Shearwater Point. (2) 48° true for 1.3 miles to Pillar Point Light abeam distant 0.4 mile; this course heads for the Cannery wharf at Observation Point. (3) 56° true for 1.3 miles to abreast of the Cannery in Shearwater Bay.

From the northeastward.-Round Dangerous Cape at a distance of 311⁄2 miles and make good the following courses: (1) 276° true for 312 miles to Outer Right Cape (eastern end) bearing 0° true distant 212 miles. (2) 305° true for 3.4 miles to Inner Right Cape bearing 52° true distant 1.6 miles; this course heads for the tangent of the bold shore about 2 miles northwestward of Left Cape. (3) 331° true for 3.8 miles to Pillar Point Light bearing 66° true, distant 111⁄2 miles; this course heads for Shearwater Point. Then follow courses (2) and (3) of the preceding paragraph.

The northern side Kiliuda Bay is idented by an open bay about 114 miles wide between Shearwater Point and Coxcomb Point. Foul ground extends 1% of the way from Shearwater Point to Coxcomb Point. A rock 4 feet (1.2 m) high lies 1⁄2 mile east of Coxcomb Point. The entrance channel is 200 yards eastward of this rock. A northerly course leads to the center of the open bay which has a depth of 3 fathoms (5.5 m). The bottom has a gentle rise to the extensive sand beach at the head. A vessel may be beached here in the event of an emergency.

A rock 45 feet (13.7 m) high and 1/2 mile southwestward from Coxcomb Point, marks the outer limit of shallow depths. There is a triangular-shaped bank outside the line drawn from the rock 45 feet (13.7 m) high, to Shearwater Point. It extends across Kiliuda Bay, to terminate in 15 fathoms (27.4 m), sounding 1/2 mile northwest from Pivot Point. The anchoring depths on the bank are 14 to 17 fathoms (25.6 to 31 m) sand bottom.

The point on the northern side of Kiliuda Bay about 3 miles to the westward of Coxcomb Point is a low grass-covered sand spit. The axis of a channel of deep water is 300 yards from the sand spit, and the 40-fathom (73 m) depth curve is only 150 yards from the spit. Just southward of this channel the depths are very irregular and the area should be avoided.

Left Cape is a bold headland separating Kiliuda Bay from Sitkalidak Strait (eastern part). The southeastern face of the cape is covered with a series of long rock slides extending almost to the mountain summit back of the cape. There are numerous boulders close inshore and submerged rocks fringe the cape.

SITKALIDAK ISLAND (chart 8536), about 18 miles long, is centrally adjacent to the southeast coast of Kodiak Island, but it lies mainly within the general trend of that coast. The island is grass