Alaska Gazetteer
Cape Chiniak is a physical feature (cape) in Kodiak Island Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Cape Chiniak |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Cape |
| Description: | N point of entrance to Hallo Bay, on NE coast of Alaska Peninsula, in Katmai National Monument, 43 mi. NE of Mount Katmai, Aleutian Range |
| History: | "Native name published by Lieutenant Sarichev (1826, map 16), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as ""M(ys) Chiniatskiy,"" or ""Cape Chiniat,"" and by the Russian-American Company as ""M(ys) Chiniakskiy,"" or ""Cape Chiniak,"" in 1849. The U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office in 1869 called this feature ""Tuniak Point (Tchineyak);"" it was later changed to ""Cape Chiniak"" by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS)." |
| Borough: | Kodiak Island Borough |
| Latitude: | 58.5161094666 |
| Longitude: | -153.91027832 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Cape Chiniak: Cape Chiniak.
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 Cape Chiniak does not include property ownership information.
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Aievak, AK
(4.1 miles NW) |
Kukak, AK
(17 miles SW) |
