Alaska Gazetteer
Point Horn is a physical feature (cape) in Chugach Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Point Horn |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Cape |
| Description: | on Hinchinbrook I., SE shore of Port Etches, 32 mi. SW of Cordova, Chugach Mts. |
| History: | "Named ""Horne Point"" by Captain Nathaniel Portlock (1789, map facing p. 227) for Robert Horne, carpenter of his vessel King George, while exploring the region in 1787. It was called ""Punta de Espada"" (Point Sward) in 1779 by the Spanish explorers Don Juan de la Bodega y Quadra and Don Ignacia Arteaga on a unpublished manuscript chart called ""Puerto de Santiago.""" |
| Borough: | Chugach Borough |
| Latitude: | 60.3336105347 |
| Longitude: | -146.561660767 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Point Horn: Point Horn.
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 Point Horn does not include property ownership information.
| Boswell Bay, AK (15.4 miles ENE) |
