Elephant Point, Alaska

Elephant Point, Alaska

Elephant Point is a landhead in the Kotzebue Sound, Chukchi Sea.coord|66|15|N|161|20|W|region:US.

It extends northeast into Eschscholtz Bay, 44 mi. southeast of Selawik.

This landhead 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 vincinity 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. [ [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=108:3:15845223094965297813::NO::P3_FID:1412976 Elephant Point village] ]

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* [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=108:3:15845223094965297813::NO::P3_FID:1412975 USGS]


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