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...

Picea sitchensis, the Sitka spruce, is a large, coniferous, evergreen tree growing to just over 100 meters (330 ft) tall, with a trunk diameter at breast...

The Sitka deer or Sitka black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus sitkensis) is a subspecies of mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), similar to the Columbian...

Kansas Sitka Township, Clark County, Kansas Sitka, Kentucky Sitka, Ohio Sitka Tribe of Alaska, a federally-recognized tribal government Sitka High School...

Emil Sitka (December 22, 1914 – January 16, 1998) was an American actor who appeared in hundreds of movies, short films, and television shows, and who...

The Battle of Sitka (Russian: Сражение при Ситке; 1804) was the last major armed conflict between Russians and Alaska Natives, and was initiated in response...

Sitka is an unincorporated community in Clark County, Kansas, United States. Sitka was founded in 1909. Its post office was closed on May 22, 1964. The...

location used a different local mean time based on its longitude. For example, Sitka, the capital of Alaska at the time, at longitude 135°20′W, had a local time...

USS Sitka has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to: USS Sitka (PF-94), a patrol frigate renamed USS Milledgeville (PF-94)...

Sitka and Spruce was a restaurant by Matt Dillon in Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington. The business earned Dillon a James Beard Foundation Award...

the commissioners arrived in Sitka and the formal transfer was arranged; the formal flag-raising took place at Fort Sitka on October 18, 1867. In the ceremony...

Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport (IATA: SIT, ICAO: PASI, FAA LID: SIT) is a state-owned, public-use airport located west of the central business district...

Sitka Sound is a body of water near the city of Sitka, Alaska. It is bordered by Baranof Island to the south and the northeast, by Kruzof Island to the...

the City and Borough of Sitka (Sitka also extends northward onto Chichagof Island). The only part of Baranof that is not in Sitka is a tiny sliver of land...

Eskimo bowline Names Eskimo bowline, Sitka loop, anti-bowline, Cossack knot, Kalmyk loop Category Loop Origin Ancient Related Kalmyk loop, bowline, cowboy...

recommended to her. She accepts his terms. They travel to Andrew's hometown of Sitka, Alaska to see his parents Joe and Grace and his grandmother Annie. They...

subsp. sinuata have nitrogen-fixing nodules. A study in Alaska showed that Sitka alder seedlings were able to invade coal mine spoils and can be used for...

the Kake in retribution for the death of two Kake departing Sitka village by canoe. Sitka was the site of a standoff between the Army and Tlingit due...

of settlements. He founded Pavlovskaya (Kodiak) and later New Archangel (Sitka), Russian colonies that were bases of the company in present-day Alaska...

The ABC Islands bear or Sitka brown bear (Ursus arctos sitkensis) is a subspecies or population of brown bear that resides in Southeast Alaska and is...

Church in America Diocese of Alaska, at Lincoln and Maksoutoff Streets in Sitka, Alaska. The earliest Orthodox cathedral in the New World, it was built...

named Thomas Ahllund, who had been recruited to work in Sitka: We had not spent many weeks at Sitka when two large steam ships arrived there, bringing things...

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...

was established in Sitka, Alaska, in 1941, and that the fledgling State of Israel was destroyed in 1948. The novel is set in Sitka, which it depicts as...

Salix sitchensis is a species of willow known by the common name Sitka willow. It is native to northwestern North America from Alaska to northern California...

the upper hand, Sitka gives his life to save his brothers by dislodging the glacier, although the bear survives the fall. After Sitka's funeral, an enraged...

Sitka is an unincorporated community with U.S. Post Office centered on KY Route 201, in Johnson County, Kentucky, United States. It is located at an elevation...

The Sitka Tribe of Alaska is the federally recognized tribal government for more than 4,000 federally recognized Native people, mostly Alaska Natives...

scenery and mild, rainy climate. The largest cities in the region are Juneau, Sitka, and Ketchikan. This region is also home to Hyder, the easternmost town...

including the capital, New Archangel (Novo-Arkhangelsk), which is now Sitka. Russian expansion eastward began in 1552, and in 1639 Russian explorers...