Alaska Gazetteer
Point Martin is a physical feature (cape) in Chugach Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Point Martin |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Cape |
| Description: | at NW end of Controller Bay, 0.5 mi. N of Whale I. and 2.7 mi. SW of Katalla, Malaspina Coastal Plain |
| History: | "Named in 1794 by Captain Vancouver (1798, v. 3, p. 217), Royal Navy (RN), who wrote, there are ""two rocky islets lying off the northwest point of Controllers Bay which after Sir Henry Martin, I called Point Martin * * *."" It was called ""Punta de Eguia"" by Don Jacinto Arteaga in JULY, 1779, probably for ""manuel de Eguia, a brigadier in the Spanish navy and Recked in 1787 in the San Pedro Alcantara, while enroute from Callao to Cadiz"" (Wagner, 1937, p. 449). The ""Punta Nodales"" of Captain Alessandro Malaspina appears to be this point of land also. He named it thus July 16, 1791." |
| Borough: | Chugach Borough |
| Latitude: | 60.182220459 |
| Longitude: | -144.591384888 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Point Martin: Point Martin.
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| Katalla, AK (2.7 miles ENE) |
