Hinchinbrook (Isla)

"La isla Hinchinbrook (en inglés, Hinchinbrook Island) es una isla situada en el golfo de Alaska, en los Estados Unidos de América, en la entrada del Prince William Sound. Mide 35 kilómetros de largo, se sitúa al sudeste del Prince William Sound, a 24 kilímetros de Cordova. En el año 2000 contaba con 5 habitantes permanentes. Su nombre le fue dado en 1778 por James Cooken honor al vizconde Hinchinbroke. Sin embargo fue nombrada de manera diferente en visitas sucesivas: como isla de Santa María Magdalena o de la Magdalena por el capitán español Ignacio de Arteaga en 1779, Rose Island dado por el capitán John Meares de la Royal Navy en 1788. El capitán ruso Mikhail Tebenkov adaptó el nombre esquimal como Khtahalyuk en un mapa en 1852, mostrado anteriormente en un mapa ruso de 1802 como Tkhalka. El faro del cabo Hinchinbrook se sitúa al sudoeste de la isla."

"Hinchinbrook Island is an island in the Gulf of Alaska lying at the entrance to Prince William Sound in the state of Alaska, United States. The island has a land area of 171.98 sq mi (445.438 km²), making it the 37th largest island in the United States. There was a population of five permanent residents as of the 2000 census. Cape Hinchinbrook Light is located on the southwest side of the island. Also on the southwest side is the abandoned village of Nuchek on Port Etches (bay). The Chugach Alaska Corporation now runs the Nuchek Spirit Camp at this site. During the Cold War, a US Government White Alice radar site was located on the northeast corner of the island. This site is now abandoned, and all that remains is a trail to the former antenna site on a small hill to the southwest and several of the buildings. Nearby Boswell Bay Airport is the landing strip that formerly served this site. A few houses comprise the hamlet of Boswell Bay across the bay to the south. The State of Alaska maintains Boswell Bay Marine State Park nearby on Boswell Bay. In 1792, a battle occurred on Hinchinbrook Island between Yakutat Tlingit and a group of Russians and Kodiak Sugpiaq led by Alexander Baranov. The Tlingit had likely come to the island seeking retribution after the Chugach Sugpiaq had raided them the previous year. In 1797, Baranov visited Fort Konstantinovsk, built by the Lebedev-Lastochkin Company, on the island he called Nuchek Island. Most of these men joined his Shelikhov-Golikov Company."