Information About

Point Pigot

Quick Facts

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Location

60 ° 48' 11.999" N,
148 ° 20' 47" W

Region

Valdez-Cordova (CA)

Nearest City

Whittier

Point Pigot in Detail.

About

between Pigot Bay and Passage Canal, 12 mi. NE of Hittier, Chugach Mts.

History

Named by Captain George Vancouver, Royal Navy (RN), in 1794 "probably in honor of Robert Pigot, one of the midshipmen on the (English vessel) Chatham" (Wagner, 1937, p. 402).