Description
Point Cochrane is located on NE coast of Kenai Peninsula, at S entrance to Passage Canal, 11 mi. E of Whittier, Chugach Mts.
History
This point was investigated by Joseph Whidbey on June 5, 1794, and named by Captain George Vancouver, Royal Navy (RN), probably for Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, British naval officer and later admiral (Wagner, 1937, p. 381).