Information About

Puget Cove

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Puget Cove on The Map

Location

59 ° 33' 43.999" N,
139 ° 42' 47.999" W

Region

Yakutat

Nearest City

Yakutat

Elevation

16 ft (4.88 m)

Puget Cove in Detail.

About

0.7 mi. E of Shipyard Cove on Yakutat Roads, 1 mi. N of Yakutat, Malaspina Coastal Plain.

History

Named by W. H. Dall, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), in 1879 for Lieutenant Peter Puget, Royal Navy (RN), companion of Captain George Vancouver, Royal Navy (RN), who explored this area in 1794. The name was published in the 1883 Coast Pilot (p. 209).