Point Hobart is a physical feature (cape) in Hoonah-Angoon (CA) Borough.
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Feature Name: | Point Hobart |
Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
Feature Type: | Physical |
Class: | Cape |
Description: | on E shore of Stephens Passage, about 1 mi. S of Hobart Bay, 2.6 mi. SW of Entrance I. and 74 mi. E of Sitka, Coast Mts. |
History: | Name by Captain George Vancouver, Royal Navy (RN), after its discovery by Lieutenant Joseph Whidbey on August 13, 1794, for John Hobart, the Second Earl of Buckingham, England (Wagner, 1937, p. 392). This name was published in 1848 as Mys Khobart, that is Khobart Cape, by the Russian Hydrographic Dept. on Chart 1396. |
Borough: | Hoonah-Angoon (CA) Borough |
Latitude: | 57.380279541 |
Longitude: | -133.474441528 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Point Hobart: Point Hobart.
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 Hobart does not include property ownership information.
Entrance Island, AK
(2.4 miles NNE) |
Cape Fanshaw, AK
(11.6 miles S) |