Alaska Gazetteer
Cape Trinity is a physical feature (cape) in Kodiak Island Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Cape Trinity |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Cape |
| Description: | on SW coast of Kodiak I., at S tip of Aliulik Peninsula, Kodiak I. |
| History: | "Name derived from Trinity Islands, given by Captain Cook (1785, v. 2, p. 407-08), Royal Navy (RN), in 1778. He wrote ""the Westernmost (sic) part of the continent now in sight, being a low point facing Trinity Island, and which we called Cape Trinity. This feature was called ""M(ys) Yuzhnoy,"" (South Cape), by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 22); U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) gave ""Aliulik"" as the native name for this feature in 1934." |
| Borough: | Kodiak Island Borough |
| Latitude: | 56.7475013733 |
| Longitude: | -154.146392822 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Cape Trinity: Cape Trinity.
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 Trinity does not include property ownership information.
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Aiaktalik, AK
(3.1 miles SSE) |
Kaguyak, AK
(15.7 miles ENE) |
