CoUNITEDas STATESt Pilot® Alaska: Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer

2021 (43rd) Edition

This edition cancels the 42nd Edition and includes all previously published corrections.

Weekly updates to this edition are available at: nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/publications/coast-pilot/index.html

U.S. Department of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Richard W. Spinrad, Ph.D., Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere

National Ocean Service Nicole R. LeBoeuf, Assistant Administrator for Ocean Services and Coastal Zone Management II U.S. Coast Pilot 8 19 SEP 2021

136°W 134°W Coast Pilot 8 – Chapter Index Chapter 4 – Dixon Entrance to Ketchikan 60°N Chapter 5 – Clarence Strait, Dixon Entrance to Wrangell Chapter 6 – West Coast of Prince of Wales Island Chapter 7 – Sumner Strait Chapter 8 – Frederick Sound Chapter 9 – Stephens Passage Chapter 10 – Chatham Strait 11 Chapter 11 – Lynn Canal Chapter 12 – West Coast of Baranof Island Chapter 13 – Salisbury Sound and Peril Strait L Y Chapter 14 – West Coast of Chichagof Island and Yakobi Island N 15 N Chapter 15 – Cross Sound and Icy Strait

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GRAHAM ISLAND (Canada) 19 SEP 2021 ¢ Preface III

Preface

he United States Coast Pilot is published by the National Ocean Service (NOS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric TAdministration (NOAA), pursuant to the Act of 6 August 1947 (33 U.S.C. 883a and b), and the Act of 22 October 1968 (44 U.S.C. 1310).

The Coast Pilot supplements the navigational information shown on NOAA nautical charts. The publication is continually updated and maintained from inspections conducted by NOAA survey vessels and fi eld parties, corrections published in Notices to Mariners, information from other Federal agencies, State and local governments, maritime and pilots’ associations, port authorities, and concerned mariners.

NOAA’s Offi ce of Coast Survey encourages public feedback regarding its suite of nautical charting products and services through ASSIST, Coast Survey’s stakeholder engagement and feedback tool. This allows customers to submit questions or comments or to report an error with NOAA’s nautical charts and products. Customers can access ASSIST at www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/customer-service/assist/ Those who prefer to communicate by telephone can contact Coast Survey at 1–888–990–6622.

Coast Pilot corrections are no longer published in the NGA Notice to Mariners eff ective 01 January 2021. Additional information regarding the NGA policy change can be referenced at msi.nga.mil/NTM in the Notice to Mariners 52/20 Hydrogram and Marine Information sections.

Coast Pilot Updates Check for weekly critical updates for this edition at nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/publications/coast-pilot/index.html (See 33 CFR 164.33 Charts and Publications, chapter 2, for regulations.)

Customers may print the specifi cally aff ected paragraphs to revise this book, or download an updated fi le (PDF) of the entire volume.

A Weekly Record of Updates is provided directly preceding the index. IV ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 8 19 SEP 2021