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Definition of Admiralty island
1. Noun. An Alaskan island in the Alexander Archipelago near Juneau.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Admiralty Island
Literary usage of Admiralty island
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adventure Guide to the Inside Passage and Coastal Alaska by Lynn Readicker-Henderson (2002)
"Angoon & admiralty island Angoon, the only permanent community on admiralty island,
... admiralty island National Monument has its headquarters in Angoon, ..."
2. Adventure Guide Inside Passage & Coastal Alaska by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"Angoon & admiralty island Angoon, the only permanent community on admiralty island,
... admiralty island National Monument has its headquarters in Angoon, ..."
3. The Wilderness of the North Pacific Coast Islands: A Hunter's Experiences by Charles Sheldon (1912)
"Since we could spare but two months for an outing, admiralty island, in Alaska,
had been selected as the most accessible place in which to hunt the large ..."
4. The Call of the South by Louis Becke (1908)
"CHAPTER III THE BLIND MAN OF admiralty island WE had had a stroke—or rather a
series of strokes—of very bad luck. ..."
5. Log-letters from "The Challenger" by George Campbell (1877)
"The cruise from admiralty island to Yokohama was very wearisome, ... We left
admiralty island on March 10th, and arrived at Yokohama on April llth. ..."
6. A New Universal Gazetteer: Or Geographical Dictionary by Jedidiah Morse, Richard Cary Morse (1823)
"admiralty island, isl. discovered by the Dutch, near Nova Zembla, in the Froze»
Ocean. admiralty island, large isl. on the W. coast of North ..."
7. The Edinburgh Gazetteer, Or Geographical Dictionary ...: Accompanied by an Atlas (1822)
"admiralty island, the name given to an island discovered by the Dutch, ...
admiralty island, a large island on the west coast of North America, between King ..."