Information About

Butcher Creek

Quick Facts

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Location

58 ° 37' 59.999" N,
137 ° 34' 40.001" W

Region

Hoonah-Angoon (CA)

Nearest City

Pelican

Butcher Creek in Detail.

About

on S end of Cenotaph I. in Lituya Bay, in Glacier Bay National Monument, 3.2 mi. NE of Harbor Point and 86 mi. WNW of Hoonah, Malaspina Coastal Plain.

History

Named by W. H. Dall, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), in 1874. The name was published in the 1883 Coast Pilot (p. 204). See Cenotaph Island.