History of Point Hobart

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.

Found on the following Topo Maps

Places Near Point Hobart

Robert Islands, Storm Islands,

The Five Fingers,

Bird Rock, East Spit, McDonald Rock, West Spit,

Port Houghton, Fanshaw Bay, Hobart Bay, Russian Cove, Steamboat Bay, Sunset Cove, Windham Bay,

Point Walpole, Point Hobart, Bartlett Point, Bill Point, Canoe Point, Cape Fanshaw, Duck Point, Fort Point, The Haystack, McNairy Point, Rocky Point, Point Windham,

The Narrows, Cleveland Passage, South Passage,

The Five Fingers, Akusha Island, Crow Island, Entrance Island, Foot Island, Rabbit Island, Robert Island, Sunset Island, The Twins, Walter Island, Whitney Island,

Alice Lake, Little Lagoon, The Salt Chuck,

Windham,

First Basin Mine, K and D Mine,

Dahlgren Peak, Mount Fanshaw, Jamestown Peak,

Stephens Passage,

Fanshaw Range,

Chuck River,

Libby Creek, Negro Creek, Slate Creek, Spruce Creek, Sylvia Creek, Taylor Creek,

Windham Bay Trail,

Cape Fanshaw, Entrance Island, Hobart Bay,