Alaska Gazetteer
Point Turner is a physical feature (cape) in Yakutat Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Point Turner |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Cape |
| Description: | on S tip of Khantaak I., in Monti Bay, 1.9 mi. NW of Yakutat, Malaspina Coastal Plain. |
| History: | "Named by Captain George Dixon, RN, in 1789 for James Turner, the mate of his ship, Queen Charlotte. It was called ""M(ys) Turney,"" meaning ""Point Turni,"" by Captain Tebenkov, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), (1852, map 7); it was mistranslated from the English on the 1847 Russian Hydrographic Dept. Chart 1378 as ""M(ys) Povorotnyy,"" meaning ""Cape Turning"" or ""Turning Point"" (U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1883, p. 207)." |
| Borough: | Yakutat Borough |
| Latitude: | 59.5602760315 |
| Longitude: | -139.778335571 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Point Turner: Point Turner.
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 Turner does not include property ownership information.
| Situk, AK (11.7 miles SE) |
