Information About

Point Cochrane

Quick Facts

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Location

60 ° 46' 1.999" N,
148 ° 21' 42.001" W

Region

Valdez-Cordova (CA)

Nearest City

Whittier

Point Cochrane in Detail.

About

on NE coast of Kenai Peninsula, at S entrance to Passage Canal, 11 mi. E of Whittier, Chugach Mts.

History

This point was investigated by Joseph Whidbey on June 5, 1794, and named by Captain George Vancouver, Royal Navy (RN), probably for Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, British naval officer and later admiral (Wagner, 1937, p. 381).