Elephant Point (Alaska)

Elephant Point is a headland in Kotzebue Sound, Chukchi Sea in Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, United States.[1]

It extends northeast into Eschscholtz Bay, 44 miles (71 km) southeast of Selawik.

This headland was named in 1826 by Royal Navy Captain Frederick William Beechey who wrote in his log: "I bestowed the name of Elephant upon the point, to mark its vicinity to the place where the fossils (bones of elephants) were found." Those bones probably belonged to mammoths.

A populated place named Elephant Point lies nearby.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Feature Detail Report for: Elephant Point (cape)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. ↑ "Feature Detail Report for: Elephant Point (populated place)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

Coordinates: 66°15′32″N 161°20′05″W / 66.25889°N 161.33472°W / 66.25889; -161.33472


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