Alaska Gazetteer
Beardslee Entrance is a cultural feature (channel) in Hoonah-Angoon (CA) Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Beardslee Entrance |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Cultural |
| Class: | Channel |
| Description: | in Glacier Bay National Monument, near S entrance to Glacier Bay, between Young and Strawberry Is., 58 mi. NW of Juneau; St. Elias Mts. 1.5 miles wide. |
| History: | name proposed by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) in 1938 for Rear Admiral Lester Anthony Beardslee, 1836-1903, U.S. Navy (USN), who explored and named Glacier Bay in 1880. was used by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) to Board on Geographic Names (BGN) approval of the name Beardslee Entrance. |
| Borough: | Hoonah-Angoon (CA) Borough |
| Latitude: | 58.4986114502 |
| Longitude: | -135.994445801 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Beardslee Entrance: Beardslee Entrance.
| Bartlett Cove, AK (4.3 miles SE) |
