Alaska Gazetteer
Cape Cheerful is a physical feature (cape) in Aleutians West (CA) Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Cape Cheerful |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Cape |
| Description: | on N coast of Unalaska I., Aleutian Islands. |
| History: | "Translation of a Russian name reported in 1817 Lieutenant Otto von Kotzebue, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as ""Veselofski,"" probably from the name of the village located on this point. It was published by Lieutenant Sarichev (1826, map 15), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as ""m(ys) Veselovskiy,"" meaning ""Cape Cheerful.""" |
| Borough: | Aleutians West (CA) Borough |
| Latitude: | 54.0108337402 |
| Longitude: | -166.67805481 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Cape Cheerful: Cape Cheerful.
Note that you do not have the right to enter private property without the owner's permission. You do have a right to access goverment property that is open to the general public. The GNIS Feature Detail Report for Cape Cheerful does not include property ownership information.
| Dutch Harbor, AK (10.1 miles SSE) |
