Lions Head Mountain is a physical feature (summit) in Juneau Borough.
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Feature Name: | Lions Head Mountain |
Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
Feature Type: | Physical |
Class: | Summit |
Description: | on Kakuhan Range, 3.6 mi. NE of Point Sherman on Lynn Canal and 46 mi. NW of Juneau, Coast Mts. |
History: | "descriptive name given in 1867 by George Davidson, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), because its ""serrated profile is said to show, when seen from Chatham strait, a resemnlance to a couchant lion"" (Knopf, 1911, p. 10). The name was published in the 1869 Coast Pilot. The mountain was charted, however, east of Berners Bay and continued to be so shown for nearly 40 years." |
Borough: | Juneau Borough |
Latitude: | 58.8778953552 |
Longitude: | -135.057952881 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Lions Head Mountain: Lions Head Mountain.
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 Lions Head Mountain does not include property ownership information.