Information About

Point Romanof

Quick Facts

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Location

63 ° 12' 10.001" N,
162 ° 49' 43" W

Region

Wade Hampton (CA)

Nearest City

Stebbins

Point Romanof in Detail.

About

point of land, E point of entrance to Pastol Bay, on Norton Sound, 30 mi. SW of St. Michael, Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.

History

On September 19, 1778, Captain Cook (1785, v. 2, p. 489), RN, named this "Point Shallow Water." Published in French in 1836 as "Cap Nord du haut-fond," meaning "Northern Cape Shallow Waters" by Captain F. P. Lutke, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN). The Eskimo name was recorded as "Asiatchak" by Captain Lutke and as "Aziachak" by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 2), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN).

Topo Maps

St Michael (1951), Saint Michael A-2 (1952), Saint Michael A-2 (1952), St Michael (1952), St Michael (1952), St Michael (1952), St Michael (1952), Saint Michael A-2 NW (2017),

Places Near Point Romanof

Cities:

Nokrot,

Capes:

Coffee Point, Point Romanof,

Streams:

Charley Green Creek,