Fritz Cove is a bay on the northwestern coast of Douglas Island in the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska, United States.
[1] Lying in Stephens Passage, it is 8 miles (13 km) northwest of the city of Juneau.
Historically, Fritz Cove was used for fishing by Alaska Natives, especially the Auke people.
[3] The area was surveyed by the USS Jamestown in 1880;[4][5] Lieutenant F. M. Symonds named the bay after his son.
[6] Fritz Cove and Gastineau Channel became linked in 1960 through a United States Army Corps of Engineers effort to dredge a navigation route.