Information About

Port Mulgrave

Quick Facts

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Location

59 ° 34' 1.999" N,
139 ° 47' 8.999" W

Region

Yakutat

Nearest City

Yakutat

Port Mulgrave in Detail.

About

on S end of Khantaak I., N of Graveyard Cove, 1.8 mi. NW of Yakutat; Malaspina Coastal Plain.

History

named in 1787 by Captain George Dixon, Royal Navy (RN), (Vancouver, 1798, v. 3, p. 170) for Constantine John Phipps, the Baron Mulgrave, an English Arctic explorer. waters were called "Rurik Harbor" by Captain C. V. Kromchenko in 1823 (U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1883, p. 208) presumably for the brig of the Russian American Company by this name. James Colnett, Royal Navy (RN), called it "Foggy Harbor" in 1788 (de Laguna and others, 1964, p. 20).