Information About

Wood Spit

Quick Facts

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Location

57 ° 43' 25" N,
133 ° 34' 41.999" W

Region

Hoonah-Angoon (CA)

Nearest City

Kake

Wood Spit in Detail.

About

on S shore of Holkham Bay at entrance to Endicott Arm, 3 mi. E of Point Astley and 50 mi. SE of Juneau, Coast Mts.

History

Name applied in 1889 by Lieutenant Commander H. B. Mansfield, U.S. Navy (USN), "because it was wooded;" published by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) in the 1891 Coast Pilot (p. 147).