Information About

Garden Island

Quick Facts

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Location

60 ° 0' 29.999" N,
146 ° 1' 59.999" W

Region

Valdez-Cordova (CA)

Nearest City

Cordova

Garden Island in Detail.

About

at mouth of Garden Cove, off Hinchinbrook I., 30 mi. SW of Cordova, Chugach Mts. 300 feet long.

History

Named by Captain Portlock (1789, p. 232), on June 6, 1787, while he and Captain Dixon visited the region on the English trading vessels Queen Charlotte and King George. Portlock had a garden planted on the island, probably to test the growing ability of numerous vegetables under the Alaskan climate and soil conditions.

Topo Maps

Cordova (1948), Cordova (1948), Cordova (1951), Cordova (1951), Cordova (1951), Cordova (1959), Cordova (1959), Cordova (1959), Cordova (1959), Cordova (1959), Cordova (1959),

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Garden Island,