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Sitka (Tlingit: Sheetʼká; Russian: Ситка) is a unified city-borough in the southeast portion of the U.S. state of Alaska.It was under Russian rule from 1799 to 1867. The city is situated on the west side of Baranof Island and the south half of Chichagof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of the Pacific Ocean (part of the Alaska Panhandle).
In 1939 Congress appropriate funds for the construction of naval air stations at Sitka and other sites in coastal Alaska. The Sitka station was built on Japonski Island, just west of Sitka Harbor, on land that had been under United States Navy jurisdiction since the Alaska Purchase in 1867. The Sitka Naval Air Station was formally commissioned ...
KTNL-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Sitka, Alaska, United States, which is currently silent.The station is owned by Bridge Media Networks.KTNL-TV's transmitter is located in downtown Sitka; the station is programmed from studios in Anchorage.
Sitka National Historical Park (earlier known as Indian River Park and Totem Park) is a national historical park in Sitka in the U.S. state of Alaska. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It was redesignated as a national historical park from its previous status as national monument on October 18, 1972. [ 6 ]
Location of Sitka in Alaska. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Sitka, Alaska. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Sitka, Alaska, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude ...
An overdue hunter was found dead after he was mauled by a bear in Alaska, authorities said.. Tad Fujioka, 50, of Sitka, Alaska, was reported overdue from a deer hunting trip on Tuesday evening ...
KSA-TV launched on November 15, 1959, at 6 p.m., as the first television station of any kind in Sitka. It was owned by a company known as Sitka Alaska TeleVision; the majority shareholder, Ketchikan Alaska TeleVision, operated a similar "KATV" in Ketchikan, which had gone on the air before any broadcast stations in Anchorage, Fairbanks, or Juneau.
The Redoubt St. Archangel Michael Site, also known as the Old Sitka Site and now in Old Sitka State Historical Park, is a National Historic Landmark near Sitka, Alaska.Now of archaeological interest, the site, about 7 miles (11 km) north of Sitka at the end of Halibut Point Road, was the site of the early Russian-American Company settlement known as Redoubt St. Archangel Michael (Russian ...