| Chart Name: | ETOLIN ISL TO MIDWAY ISL INCLUDING |
| Scale: | 1:217828 |
| Edition #: | 35 |
| Edition Date: | 06/01/08 | (NM 09/06/08) | (LNM 08/26/08) |
| Last Update: | 07/03/08 |
| Description: | Etolin Island, on the NE side of Clarence Strait near its head, separates Ernest Sound from Stikine Strait.
Sumner Strait is one of the great inlets into southeastern Alaska from the sea. The strait has three entrances. The main entrance from the sea, between Coronation Island and Warren Island, is about 5.8 miles wide. Warren Channel, the entrance E of Warren Island, between it and Cape Pole, is about 1.2 miles wide and is used by vessels bound to and from Davidson Inlet and Bucareli Bay. Decision Passage, the entrance between Cape Decision and the Spanish Islands, is about 1 mile wide and is used by vessels bound to and from Chatham Strait. These entrances are described under separate headings.
Midway Islands are the triangular group of wooded islands N of Southwest Islands and E of the entrance to Cannery Cove.
Holkham Bay is an inlet, with two extensive arms, on the E side of Stephens Passage, about 8.5 miles NE of Point Hugh Light and about 28 miles N of Five Finger
Light.
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| NM = Notice to Mariners LNM = Local Notice to Mariners |
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