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Port Wells

Port Wells

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  • Valdez-Cordova (CA)
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extends S 14 mi. from S end of College Fiord to Wells Passage, 16 mi. E of Whittier; Chugach Mts.

History of Port Wells

named in 1794 by Captain Vancouver (Wagner, 1937, p. 421), Royal Navy (RN), "perhaps for Edward Wells, mathematician and geographer."