Description
Graves Harbor is located in Glacier Bay National Monument, on Gulf of Alaska, 49 mi. NW of Hoonah, St Elias Mts. 4 miles long.
History
Named by US@C&GS in 1901 for Herbert Cornelius Graves, 1869-1919, civil engineer. He was born in Virginia and was a railroad and land surveyor, 1889-95. In 1895 he became a nautical expert with the U. S. Navy Hydrographic Office and later with US@C&GS. In 1915 he was appointed Chief of Hydrography and Topography, US@C&GS, and supervised the compilation of the Coast Pilots of the United States and Alaska.