Information About

Bowen Anchorage

Quick Facts

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Location

60 ° 1' 7" N,
149 ° 4' 4.001" W

Region

Kenai Peninsula

Nearest City

Seward

Bowen Anchorage in Detail.

About

on E coast of Kenai Peninsula, SE side of Day Harbor, 16 mi. SE of Seward, Chugach Mts. 0.5 mile wide.

History

Named in 1927 by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) for William H. Bowen, of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) vessel Surveyor,"who was drowned October 3, 1927, at Seward,Alaska, in heroic effort to rescue two of his shipmates who had been thrown into the wate r by the swamping of their skiff."