Alaska Gazetteer
Point Banks is a physical feature (cape) in Kodiak Island Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Point Banks |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Cape |
| Description: | on NE coast of Shuyak I., 51 mi. N of Kodiak I. |
| History: | "Discovered by Captain Cook (1785, v. 2, p. 385), RN, on May 25, 1778, and named for Sir Joseph Banks, 1743-1820, English naturalist (Wagner, 1937, p. 375). The Russian Hydrographic Dept. transliterated the name in 1847 and published it as ""M(ys) Banks"" on Chart 1378. The Russian-American Company did likewise in 1849 and Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 22), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), published the name ""M(ys) Benks.""" |
| Borough: | Kodiak Island Borough |
| Latitude: | 58.6330566406 |
| Longitude: | -152.315551758 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Point Banks: Point Banks.
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 Banks does not include property ownership information.
| Port William, AK (13.7 miles SW) |
