Description
Bowen Anchorage is located on E coast of Kenai Peninsula, SE side of Day Harbor, 16 mi. SE of Seward, Chugach Mts. 0.5 mile wide.
History
Named in 1927 by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) for William H. Bowen, of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) vessel Surveyor,"who was drowned October 3, 1927, at Seward,Alaska, in heroic effort to rescue two of his shipmates who had been thrown into the wate r by the swamping of their skiff."