Information About

Point Walpole

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Point Walpole on The Map

Location

57 ° 18' 15.998" N,
133 ° 31' 1.999" W

Region

Hoonah-Angoon (CA)

Nearest City

Kake

Elevation

10 ft (3.05 m)

Point Walpole in Detail.

About

on W end of an island, in Stephens Passage at S entrance to Port Houghton, 2 mi. N of Fort Point and 71 mi. E of Sitka, Coast Mts.

History

Named by Captain George Vancouver, Royal Navy (RN), in 1794 after its discovery by Lieutenant Joseph Whidbey on August 4, 1794, for George Walpole, Earl of Oxford, England (Wagner, 1937, p. 421). This name was published in 1848 as "Mys Valpol," or "Valpol Cape," by the Russian Hydrographic Dept. on Chart 1396.