Information About

Justice Creek

Quick Facts

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Location

58 ° 42' 50" N,
137 ° 46' 32.999" W

Region

Hoonah-Angoon (CA)

Nearest City

Haines

Justice Creek in Detail.

About

In Glacier Bay National Monument, heading in the Fairweather Range on the S slope of Mount Escures and flowing SW to the Gulf of Alaska, 8 mi SE of Cape Fairweather, 94 mi. NW of Hoohah, Malaspina Coastal Plain.

History

Named by National Park Service (NPS) in 1961 because it is the locale of "The Unexpected", a story by Jack London, where, in absence of the law, justice was provided by two prospectors who tried and executed a third person for a double murder. The story is based on an actual occurrence.