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Point Bridget

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Location

58 ° 40' 41.999" N,
134 ° 59' 15" W

Region

Juneau

Nearest City

Juneau

Elevation

43 ft (13.11 m)

Point Bridget in Detail.

About

on E shore of Lynn Canal, at S entrance to Berners Bay, 2 mi. W of Echo Cove and 33 mi. NW of Juneau, Coast Mts.

History

Named in 1794 by Captain Vancouver (1798, atlas, pl.12), RN, probably for his mother whose name was Bridget Berners (Wagner, 1937, p.377). Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 8), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), transliterates the English name as "Bridzhyet."

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Birds Sighted Here

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Snow Bunting, Barrow's Goldeneye, Mallard, Surfbird, American Crow, Common Redpoll, Glaucous-winged Gull, Red-breasted Merganser, Bufflehead, Buff-bellied Pipit, Surf Scoter, Horned Grebe, Aleutian Cackling Goose, Canada Goose, Tundra Swan, Northern Pintail, Harlequin Duck, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Common Gull, Black-billed Magpie, White-crowned Sparrow, Bank Swallow, Common Merganser, Least Sandpiper, Western Sandpiper, Herring Gull, Steller's Jay, Pine Grosbeak, Black Turnstone, Horned Lark, Lincoln's Sparrow, Ring-necked Duck, Snow Goose, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Lesser Yellowlegs, Iceland Gull, Mountain Bluebird, Dark-eyed Junco, Savannah Sparrow, Northern Shoveler, Lesser Scaup, White-winged Scoter, Tree Swallow, Common Starling, American Wigeon, Green-winged Teal, Common Goldeneye, Eurasian Collared Dove, Black-legged Kittiwake, Common Raven, Brown Creeper, Cedar Waxwing, Trumpeter Swan, Redhead, Semipalmated Plover, Long-billed Dowitcher, Bonaparte's Gull, Arctic Tern, Alder Flycatcher, Cliff Swallow, Varied Thrush, Hermit Thrush, Pine Siskin, Gadwall, Black Scoter, Long-tailed Duck, Vaux's Swift, Dunlin, Baird's Sandpiper, Red-necked Phalarope, Greater Yellowlegs, Common Murre, Pigeon Guillemot, Marbled Murrelet, Kittlitz's Murrelet, Caspian tern, Pacific Loon, Common Loon, Golden Eagle, Northern Harrier, Western Screech-Owl, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Downy Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Warbling Vireo, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Barn Swallow, Bohemian Waxwing, Chipping sparrow, Golden-crowned Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Brown-headed Cowbird, Townsend's Warbler, Western Tanager, Greater White-fronted Goose, Cackling Goose, Wood Duck, Blue-winged Teal, Cinnamon Teal, Eurasian Wigeon, Canvasback, Greater Scaup, Steller's Eider, King Eider, Hooded Merganser, White-tailed Ptarmigan, Pied-billed Grebe, Red-necked Grebe, Western Grebe, Common Nighthawk, Anna's Hummingbird, Rufous Hummingbird, Sandhill Crane, Black Oystercatcher, Black-bellied Plover, American Golden Plover, Pacific Golden-Plover, Killdeer, Upland Sandpiper, Whimbrel, Hudsonian Godwit, Marbled Godwit, Ruddy Turnstone, Red Knot, Stilt Sandpiper, Sanderling, Rock Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, Short-billed Dowitcher, Wilson's Snipe, Wilson's Phalarope, Spotted Sandpiper, Solitary Sandpiper, Wandering Tattler, Pomarine Jaeger, Parasitic Jaeger, Long-tailed Jaeger, Ancient Murrelet, Sabine's Gull, Franklin's Gull, Ring-billed Gull, California Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Slaty-backed Gull, Glaucous Gull, Red-throated Loon, Yellow-billed Loon, Pelagic Cormorant, Double-crested Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, Osprey, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Northern Goshawk, Bald Eagle, Swainson's Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, Rough-legged Hawk, Snowy Owl, Northern Pygmy-owl, Barred Owl, Short-eared Owl, Boreal Owl, Belted Kingfisher, Red-breasted Sapsucker, American Three-toed Woodpecker, Black-backed Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, American Kestrel, Merlin, Peregrine Falcon, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Western Wood-Pewee, Willow Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher, Hammond's Flycatcher, Pacific-slope Flycatcher, Say's Phoebe, Cassin's Vireo, Red-eyed Vireo, Northern Shrike, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Violet-green Swallow, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Pacific Wren, American Dipper, Northern Mockingbird, Townsend's Solitaire, Swainson's Thrush, American Robin, Brambling, Red Crossbill, White-winged Crossbill, Lapland Longspur, American Tree Sparrow, Fox Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, Yellow-headed Blackbird, Red-winged Blackbird, Rusty Blackbird, Brewer's Blackbird, Northern Waterthrush, Orange-crowned Warbler, MacGillivray's Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, American Redstart, Yellow Warbler, Blackpoll Warbler, Palm Warbler, Wilson's Warbler