Beardslee Entrance, Alaska, United States
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Beardslee Entrance is a channel located in Hoonah-Angoon (CA) county Alaska in the United States of America. It is at 58.4986111 latitude and -135.9944444 longitude. Beardslee Entrance is at an elevation of 0 ft (0 m). The USGS map that contains this location is titled "Juneau B-6".
Description
in Glacier Bay National Monument, near S entrance to Glacier Bay, between Young and Strawberry Is., 58 mi. NW of Juneau; St. Elias Mts. 1.5 miles wide.
History
name proposed by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) in 1938 for Rear Admiral Lester Anthony Beardslee, 1836-1903, U.S. Navy (USN), who explored and named Glacier Bay in 1880. was used by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) to Board on Geographic Names (BGN) approval of the name Beardslee Entrance.
Location Details
| Type of Place: | Channel |
| Latitude: | 58.4986111 |
| Longitude: | -135.9944444 |
| Elevation: | 0 ft / 0 m |
| County: | Hoonah-Angoon (CA) |
| USGS Map Name: | Juneau B-6 |
