Alaska Gazetteer
Port Etches is a physical feature (bay) in Chugach Borough.
Sorry, no local resorces for this location!
| Feature Name: | Port Etches |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Bay |
| Description: | on SW coast of Hinchinbrook I., 30 mi. SW of Cordova; Chugach Mts. 10 miles long. |
| History: | "named by Captain Portlock (1789, p. 244) in July 1787, presumedly for John Cadman Etches, who with ""other traders entered into a commercial partenship, under the title of The King George's Sound Company, for carrying a fur trade from the western coast of America to China (1789, p. 4)."" stated that the port was named for ""John and Camden Etches and Co., of London, early fur traders of the Northwest coast."" George Dixon, Royal Navy (RN), who accompanied Portlock on the voyage, called it ""Port Rose."" for this feature, referring to it as ""Zaliv Nuchek"" on their Hydrop. Dept. Chart 1378, dated 1847. de Santiago,"" July 23, 1779, by Don Ignacio Arteaga as a novena was prepared to celebrate the saint's day on July 25." |
| Borough: | Chugach Borough |
| Latitude: | 60.3302764893 |
| Longitude: | -146.604446411 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Port Etches: Port Etches.
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 Port Etches does not include property ownership information.
| Boswell Bay, AK (16.8 miles ENE) |
