Information About

Point Hobart

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Point Hobart on The Map

Location

57 ° 22' 49.001" N,
133 ° 28' 27.998" W

Region

Hoonah-Angoon (CA)

Nearest City

Kake

Elevation

46 ft (14.02 m)

Point Hobart in Detail.

About

on E shore of Stephens Passage, about 1 mi. S of Hobart Bay, 2.6 mi. SW of Entrance I. and 74 mi. E of Sitka, Coast Mts.

History

Name by Captain George Vancouver, Royal Navy (RN), after its discovery by Lieutenant Joseph Whidbey on August 13, 1794, for John Hobart, the Second Earl of Buckingham, England (Wagner, 1937, p. 392). This name was published in 1848 as Mys Khobart, that is Khobart Cape, by the Russian Hydrographic Dept. on Chart 1396.