Description
Port Snettisham is located trends SW from Speel Arm to Stephens Passage at N end of Snettisham Peninsula, 30 mi. SE of Juneau; Coast Mts.
History
Named by Captain George Vancouver, Royal Navy (RN), "for a town in Norfolk, England" after its discovery by Lieutenant Joseph Whidbey, Royal Navy (RN), on August 12, 1794 (Wagner, 1937, p. 417).