Baker Island is an island

Island

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 in the Alexander Archipelago

Alexander Archipelago

The Alexander Archipelago is a long archipelago, or group of islands, of North America off the southeastern coast of Alaska. It contains about 1,100 islands, which are the tops of the submerged coastal mountains that rise steeply from the Pacific Ocean. Deep channels and fjords separate the...

 of southeastern Alaska

Alaska

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, USA. It lies off the central west coast of Prince of Wales Island. Its closest significant island neighbors are Noyes Island

Noyes Island

Noyes Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, United States. It lies just to the west of Prince of Wales Island. It was named in 1879 by William Healy Dall of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey after William M. Noyes, also of the USC&GS, who was stationed in Alaska...

 to its northwest, Lulu Island directly to its north, and Suemez Island

Suemez Island

Suemez Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska, USA. It lies just off the west-central coast of Prince of Wales Island. The northern tip of Dall Island lies to its southeast, while Baker Island lies to its northwest...

 across Bucareli Bay

Bucareli Bay

Bucareli Bay is a bay in the Alexander Archipelago, in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located off the western coast of Prince of Wales Island, between Baker Island and Suemez Island. To the east it connects to various waterways, such as San Alberto Bay. To the west it...

 to its southeast. The smaller San Juan Bautista Island and St. Ignace Island separate it from Prince of Wales Island and its nearest community, Craig

Craig, Alaska

Craig is a first-class city in the Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area in the Unorganized Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. The population was 1,397 at the 2000 census.-Geography:...

. The island has a land area of 44.44 square miles (115.1 km²) and is uninhabited.

The first Europe

Europe

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an to sight the island was Aleksei Chirikov

Aleksei Chirikov

Aleksei Ilyich Chirikov was a Russian navigator and captain who along with Bering was the first Russian to reach North-West coast of North America. He discovered and charted some of the Aleutian Islands while he was deputy to Vitus Bering during the Great Northern Expedition.- Life and work :In...

 in 1741. It was named by William Healy Dall of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey

U.S. National Geodetic Survey

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in 1879 after Marcus Baker (1849–1903).