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The Sisters are a cluster of mountain summits on the west coast of Baranof Island in southeast Alaska, about five miles northeast of Sitka. Part of the Alexander Archipelago and within Tongass National Forest, they drain toward the Indian River and Sitka Sound. Their highest peak reaches 3,838 feet, and the range is especially dramatic on its north side, where the land rises more than 3,400 feet in a single mile. Shaped by a subpolar oceanic climate, the mountains often draw heavy rain and snowfall from storms off the Gulf of Alaska. Published in 1916 and later officially adopted, the name endures for a prominent feature in the landscape near Sitka.
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Sitka, Alaska · United States
