Crossword clues for sitka
sitka
- Alaskan seaport
- Spruce, as kit is reorganised
- Alaskan port
- Port of Alaska
- One-time capital of Alaska
- Town on Baranof Island
- Spruce variety
- Original capital of the Alaska Territory
- Alaska town
- Alaska cruise stop
- West coast spruce
- Type of spruce
- Site of the Alaska Purchase transfer ceremony
- Juneau neighbor
- Former Alaska Territory capital
- City south of Skagway
- City south of Juneau
- City on Alaska's panhandle
- City on Alaska's Baranof Island
- Baranof Island town
- America's largest city in area
- Alaska Territory capital until 1906
- Alaska city once known as New Archangel to the Russians
- Alaska city once known as New Archangel
- Alaska's first capital
- Alaska's ___ National Historical Park
- First territorial capital of Alaska
- Chief town in Russian America
- Onetime Alaskan capital
- Capital of Russian America
- University of Alaska Southeast campus site
- 19th-century territorial capital
- First capital of Alaska
- Alaska city that's larger in area than Rhode Island or Delaware
- First capital of the Last Frontier
- Alaskan city
- Alaskan panhandle city
- Early capital of Alaska
- Alaskan naval base
- National historical park in Alaska
- City once called New Archangel
- Former capital of Alaska
- Alaska's capital before Juneau
- Alaskan locale
- Alaskan town
- Important U.S. naval base
- Naval base in Alaska
- Capital of former Russian America
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Sitka may refer to:
- Sitka, Indiana, an unincorporated community
- Sitka, Kansas, an unincorporated community
- Sitka Township, Clark County, Kansas
- Sitka, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
- Sitka, Ohio, an unincorporated community
- Sitka (crater), an impact crater on Mars
- USS Sitka (APA-113), an attack transport in commission from 1945 to 1946
- USS Milledgeville (PF-94) or USS Sitka (PF-94), a patrol frigate
- Emil Sitka (1915–1998), American actor
Sitka is an impact crater on the planet Mars. It is in diameter. It is named after the city of Sitka, Alaska; the name was approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1976.
Usage examples of "sitka".
On the waterfront in the town of New Arkhangelsk, on the western side of the big island that the Russians called Baranof and the natives called Sitka, two men stood looking out over the harbor.
They went up the West Coast, all the way from Carmel to Sitka, Alaska, collecting intertidal fauna.
The population of the town itself ran about three-fourths white, one-fourth Native, mostly Yupik, with some Inupiaq transplants from up north, some Aleut transplants from down south, and one lone Tlingit family that got sidetracked during a move from Sitka to Nome back in the fifties, homesteaded a hundred and sixty acres twenty miles up the Icky road, and never left.
In the spring the warship, Tsar Alexandre, will arrive with your replacement for the Japans, and then carry you and your entourage to our Alaskan capital Sitka where you will be in residence for at least two years to expedite Friendship.
In a word, if Vancouver had not gone up as far as Norfolk Sound or Sitka, the Russian fur traders would have drowsed on with Kadiak as headquarters, and Canada to-day might have included the entire gold-fields of Alaska.
Paul, Kadiak, with his thousand followers to wreak vengeance on the tribes of Sitka.
George Davidson, President of the Geographical Society of the Pacific, has written an irrefutable pamphlet on why Kyak Island and Sitka Sound must be accepted as the landfalls of Bering and Chirikoff.
Water ran everywhere, redwoods and Sitka spruce went towering in ragged silhouette up to the ridgetops and over, and behind them, most of the year, gray regiments of cloud marched in from the coast.
Baranof would have selected the site of the present Sitka, high, rocky and secure from attack, but the old Sitkan chief refused to sell it, bartering for glass beads and trinkets a site some miles north of the present town.
If there was a crop failure it could mean serious food shortage in Sitka .
In memories that now unfolded like incredibly elaborate origami sculptures, I saw the rising ramparts of the Siskiyous, forested with her on her of enormous Sitka spruce, with scattered Brewer's spruce (the most beautiful of all the conifers), Lawson cypress, Douglas fir, tangerine-scented white fir that was rivaled in aromatic influence only by the tufted incense cedar, dogwood with no scent but with brilliant leaves, big-leaf maple, pendulous western maple, neat ranks of dark-green Sadler oak, and even in the faded light of memory that scene took my breath away.
Together they had hauled two seventy-pound monsters out of Halibut Hole and taken the deep-running king salmon out of the channel off Sitka.
Nanci edged the vehicle past an abandoned camper truck and stopped finally near a fast-flowing stream, among the dead stumps of a grove of Sitka spruce.
A Sitka spruce mast soared overhead flying a snowy white mainsail and a big Genoa jib, now filled with wind.