Description
Bancas Point is located on W shore of Disenchantment Bay, 1.8 mi. E of 1961 terminus of Black Glacier, 28 mi. NNE of Yakutat, St. Elias Mts.
History
Named "Punta de las Bancas" meaning "point of the banks (shoals)" in 1791 by Captain Alessandro Malaspina (Galiano, 1802, map 9).