Alaska Gazetteer
Point Romanof is a physical feature (cape) in Kusilvak (CA) Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Point Romanof |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Cape |
| Description: | point of land, E point of entrance to Pastol Bay, on Norton Sound, 30 mi. SW of St. Michael, Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. |
| History: | "On September 19, 1778, Captain Cook (1785, v. 2, p. 489), RN, named this ""Point Shallow Water."" Published in French in 1836 as ""Cap Nord du haut-fond,"" meaning ""Northern Cape Shallow Waters"" by Captain F. P. Lutke, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN). The Eskimo name was recorded as ""Asiatchak"" by Captain Lutke and as ""Aziachak"" by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 2), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN)." |
| Borough: | Kusilvak (CA) Borough |
| Latitude: | 63.2027778625 |
| Longitude: | -162.828613281 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Point Romanof: Point Romanof.
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 Romanof does not include property ownership information.
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