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Cormorant Rock

Cormorant Rock

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  • Hoonah-Angoon (CA)
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at mouth of Lituya Bay, in Glacier Bay National Monument, 0.1 mi W of Harbor Point, 8.7 mi. NW of Hoonah, Malaspina Coastal Plain

History of Cormorant Rock

Named in 1786 by LaPerouse (1798, atlas 19), as Cormorants Rock. The cormorant is a multicolored ravelike seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae, several species of which live in Alaska.