Information About

Fox Cape

Quick Facts

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Location

55 ° 39' 59" N,
159 ° 32' 12.001" W

Region

Aleutians East

Nearest City

Chignik

Elevation

7 ft (2.13 m)

Fox Cape in Detail.

About

on E side of Kupreanof Peninsula, 5 mi. E of Stepovak Bay, on S coast of Alaska Peninsula, Aleutian Range

History

Named "M(ys) Leesy," or "Fox Cape" by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 24); Imperial Russian Navy (IRN) published on Russian Hydrographic Dept. Chart 1379 (1847). "Fox Cape" was shown in 1888 on U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) Chart 806.