Alaska Gazetteer
Point Remedios is a physical feature (cape) in Prince of Wales-Hyder (CA) Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Point Remedios |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Cape |
| Description: | on NW coast of Suemez I., W point of entrance to Port Dolores, Alex. Arch. |
| History: | "Named, ""Punta de los Remedios,"" meaning ""point of the remedies,"" given in 1775-79 by Don Juan de la Bodega y Quadra and Francisco Antonio Maurelle. ""Bodega (y Quadra) carried a bronze image of Nuestra Senora de los Remedios on this voyage and perhaps the name was given in her honor, or perhaps after h is ship the Favorita, of which the real name was Nuestra Senora de los Remedios"" (Wagner, 1937, p. 405)." |
| Borough: | Prince of Wales-Hyder (CA) Borough |
| Latitude: | 55.3272209167 |
| Longitude: | -133.429718018 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Point Remedios: Point Remedios.
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 Remedios does not include property ownership information.
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