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Bancas Point

Bancas Point

Quick Facts
Region:
  • Yakutat
Nearest City:
Elevation:
  • 148 ft (45.11 m)
About

on W shore of Disenchantment Bay, 1.8 mi. E of 1961 terminus of Black Glacier, 28 mi. NNE of Yakutat, St. Elias Mts.

History of Bancas Point

Named "Punta de las Bancas" meaning "point of the banks (shoals)" in 1791 by Captain Alessandro Malaspina (Galiano, 1802, map 9).