Description
Point Walpole is located on W end of an island, in Stephens Passage at S entrance to Port Houghton, 2 mi. N of Fort Point and 71 mi. E of Sitka, Coast Mts.
History
Named by Captain George Vancouver, Royal Navy (RN), in 1794 after its discovery by Lieutenant Joseph Whidbey on August 4, 1794, for George Walpole, Earl of Oxford, England (Wagner, 1937, p. 421). This name was published in 1848 as "Mys Valpol," or "Valpol Cape," by the Russian Hydrographic Dept. on Chart 1396.