Pleasant Island, located on 58N21 and 135W37, is a real large island, located in front to Gustavus Settlement, and about 60 Kilometers west of Juneau, Alaska. The island is about 13 kilometers long and 7 kilometers wide. The highest point is The Knob, a 456 meter high hill, located near the southern shores. The Knob lies about 8 cables inshore and is a well wooded knoll. Pleasant Island lies about 4 kilometers south of Gustavus Settlement and about 12 kilometers north of the northern end of Chichagof Island, one of the northernmost in the Alexander Archipelago.

Pleasant Island is well wooded and havily vegetated with trees, bushes and grass.

The island was inhabited by the Sitka Indians when the first Europeans arive in this vicinity. The first European, who mapped the coast was in 1785, the Russian merchant Baranov, the later Governour of Russian Alaska. But it seams that at the end of the 17th century the islands were visited by Spain sailors, comming up from the Californian shores. In 1804 a small settlement was built, several burned down by the Natives, and always rebuilt by the Russian Colonialists.

In 1949 the island became a Natives Land, and in mid of the 1950's some more islands in the vicinity were transfered in a National Park. In 1963 the National Park got the name Pleasant and Lemesuierer National Park. In the late 1960's a group of cabins were errected on the northern coast, and today the island became a tourist resort with campingground and some other facilities.

In 1956 a lighttower, wooden tower, 16 meters hight, was errected on Noon Point, the easternmost point of the island, and in 1978 a second light, a daytime structure, on the Pleasant Reef, a submerged reef, 1 kilometer south of Pleasant Island.