Junk Ledge

Junk Ledge (53˚20'00" 130˚11'00" Between Wreck Point and Foul Bay, W side of Banks I). A Japanese junk may have run aground on this hazard sometime prior to 1927, when the name first appears on Admiralty charts. Small Asian junk-rigged vessels did occasionally come to grief on the W coast of N America over the years, driven by the Kuroshio (“black stream”), a warm ocean current that sweeps NE from Japan to the Aleutian Is and then along the coast of Alaska, where other currents could...

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