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Traitors Cove

Quick Facts

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Location

55 ° 43' 9.001" N,
131 ° 38' 30.001" W

Region

Ketchikan Gateway

Nearest City

Ketchikan

Traitors Cove in Detail.

About

extends NE off Behm Canal, on W coast of Revillagigedo I., Alex. Arch.

History

Named by Captain Vancouver, Royal Navy (RN), "August 12, 1793, on account of trouble there with the Indians" (Wagner, 1937, p. 419); this name was transliterated and published in 1853 as "Bukhta Tretr (izmyny)" on Russian Hydrographic Dept. Chart 1495.