Alaska Gazetteer
Point Steele is a physical feature (cape) in Chugach Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Point Steele |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Cape |
| Description: | On the NE coast of Hinchinbrook Island, 20 mi SW of Cordova; Chugach Mountains. |
| History: | "Named in 1787 by Captain Nathaniel Portlock, Royal Navy (RN), while exploring the region (1789, map facing p. 1). It was later called ""Point Bentinck,"" for William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, third Duke of Portland from 1762 (Wagner, 1937, p. 376) by Captain George Vancouver, Royal Navy (RN), during one of his many visits to the northwest American coast at the end of the 18thCentury. Don Ignacia Artega who, with Don Juan de la Bodega y Quyadra on the Spanish vessels La Princes and La Favorita explored the region in 1779, named the point ""Punta De Aguirre"" on July 17, 1779, probably after the pilot of the La Favorita, Juan Bautista de Aguirre (Wagner, 1935, p.424)." |
| Borough: | Chugach Borough |
| Latitude: | 60.3491668701 |
| Longitude: | -146.196670532 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Point Steele: Point Steele.
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 Steele does not include property ownership information.
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