Cape Lisburne, Alaska

Cape Lisburne, Alaska

Cape Lisburne is a Cape in Alaska. It is located at the NW point of the Lisburne Peninsula on the Chukchi Sea coast, 40 mi. NE of Point Hope town, Arctic Slope.

The first European to sight this cape was Captain Cook. He named it in August 21, 1778 and wrote: "The southern extreme seemed to form a point which was named Cape Lisburne."

An early Inuit name for the cape was "Uivaq," generally spelled "Wevok" or "Wevuk". Cape Lisburne was often referred to as "Uivaq Ungasiktoq" meaning "distant cape" as opposed to "Uivaq Qanitoq" (Cape Thompson) meaning "near cape."

References

* [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=108:2:7904351601948579158::NO:::]


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