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.