Description
Point Lookout is located on E shore of Stephens Passage, 0.8 mi. N of Dry Bay and 52 mi. SE of Juneau, Coast Mts.
History
Named in 1868 by Commander R. W. Meade, U.S. Navy (USN), name published in 1869 on Hydrographic Chart 225. Probably so named because "a very dangerous reef awash at high water, extends off this point a mile and a half" (US Coast and Geoditic Survey, 1891, p. 168).