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Positioned atop city hall in downtown Sitka, this view overlooks Japonski Channel in the foreground and Japonski Island and Mt. Edgecumbe in the distance. Japonski Island is connected to Sitka via cable-stay bridge and houses the Rocky Gutierrez Airport, Coast Guard Air Station and the Coast Guard buoy tender Maple.

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The City and Borough of Sitka is a unified city-borough located on the west side of Baranof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of the Pacific Ocean (part of the Alaska Panhandle), in the U.S. state of Alaska. Sitka is the state's fourth-largest city by population and the largest city in the United States by area. The name Sitka (derived from "Sheet’ká", a contraction of the Tlingit name Shee At'iká) means "People on the Outside of Shee," "Sheet’-ká X'áat'l" (often expressed simply as "Shee") being the Tlingit name for Baranof Island. The town is sometimes referred to as "Sitka-by-the-Sea." History: The area was originally settled by the native Tlingit (Kolosh) Indians. Old Sitka was founded in 1799 by Alexandr Baranov, the governor of Russian America. Baranov arrived under the auspices of the Russian-American Company, a "semi-official" colonial trading company chartered by Tsar Paul I. In 1802 a group of Tlingit destroyed the original establishment known as Redoubt Saint Michael (an ... Read more about Sitka on Wikipedia

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