Information About

Smeaton Bay

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Smeaton Bay on The Map

Location

55 ° 19' 0.001" N,
130 ° 54' 0" W

Region

Ketchikan Gateway

Nearest City

Saxman

Smeaton Bay in Detail.

About

heads at junction of its Wilson and Bakewell Arms, trends W to Behm Canal, Coast Range

History

Named in 1879 by W. H. Dall, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), for the English engineer who rebuilt the Eddystone Lighthouse near Plymouth, England in 1759, after its destruction by fire in 1755; published in the 1883 Coast Pilot (p. 72).