Information About

Harbor Point

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Harbor Point on The Map

Location

58 ° 36' 36" N,
137 ° 38' 58.999" W

Region

Hoonah-Angoon (CA)

Nearest City

Pelican

Elevation

13 ft (3.96 m)

Harbor Point in Detail.

About

at mouth of Lituya Bay, in Glacier Bay National Monument, 0.3 mi. SE of the La Chaussee Spit, 87 mi. NW of Hoonah, Malaspina Coastal Plain.

History

Named by W. H. Dall, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), in 1874 and published in the 1883 Alaska Coast Pilot (p. 202). It was called "M(ys) Yuzhnoy" meaning "Cape South" by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 8), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN).