Information About

Morse Peak

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Morse Peak on The Map

Location

57 ° 51' 15.998" N,
134 ° 2' 22.999" W

Region

Hoonah-Angoon (CA)

Nearest City

Juneau

Elevation

3294 ft (1004.01 m)

Morse Peak in Detail.

About

on Glass Peninsula, 33 mi. NE of Angoon, on E coast of Admiralty I., Alex. Arch.

History

Named in 1887 by Lieutenant C. M. Thomas, U.S. Navy (USN), for Samuel Finley Breese Morse, 1791=1872, American inventor and artist, who invented the electric telegraph in 1832.

Topo Maps

Sitka D-1 (1948), Sitka D-1 (1951), Sitka D-1 (1951), Sitka (1951), Sitka (1951), Sitka (1951), Sitka (1951), Sitka (1951), Sitka (1951), Sitka (1952), Sitka (1952), Sitka (1952), Sitka (1952), Sitka D-1 SE (2017),
Places Near Morse Peak
Bars:

Beacon Rock, Rasp Ledge,

Bays:

Fool Inlet, Limestone Inlet, Mole Harbor, Pleasant Bay, Short Finger Bay, Sore Finger Cove, Taku Harbor, Winning Cove,

Capes:

Point Anmer, Point Glass, Flaw Point, Glass Peninsula, Grave Point, Midway Point, Station Point, Staunch Point, Stockade Point, Point Styleman, Twin Point,

Channels:

Seymour Canal, Stephens Passage,

Cliffs:

The Stone Wall,

Islands:

Buck Island, Bug Island, Dorn Island, Faust Island, Mist Island, South Island, Swan Island, Tiedeman Island,

Lakes:

Lake Alexander, Beaver Lake, Buck Lake, Doe Lake, Islet Lake, Pine Lake,

Mountains:

Arthur Peak, Everett Peak, Fillmore Peak, Limestone Bluffs, Morse Peak, Randolph Peak, Washburn Peak, Webster Peak, Wheeler Peak,

Parks:

Taku Harbor State Marine Park,

Rivers:

Mole River, Whiting River,

Streams:

Anmer Creek, Bear Creek, Limestone Creek, Mist Creek,

Routes:

Lake Alexander Trail, Hasselborg-Beaver Trail,

Cities:

Taku Harbor,