Kennecott Point

Kennecott Point (53˚55'00" 133˚09'00" S entrance to Peril Bay, W side of Graham I, QCI). The 143-m freighter Kennecott was carrying 5,500 tonnes of copper ore and 40,000 cases of salmon when it ran aground at Hunter Point, S of Rennell Sd, in 1923. It was en route from Cordova, Alaska, to Tacoma at the time, travelling in heavy fog under Capt John Johnson. The crew’s initial distress call gave their position as Frederick I on Peril Bay, much farther N, and it was because of this confusion,...

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