Goodhope Bay

Goodhope Bay

Goodhope Bay is a small bay in the Kotzebue Sound, on the Chukchi Sea-facing coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. Its size is only 16 mi. across.

It is located on the northern coast of the Seward Peninsula, 30 mi. W of Deering; Kotzebue-Kobuk Low. coord|66|07|N|163|41|W|region:US.

Goodhope Bay was named by Lt. Otto von Kotzebue while exploring the region in August 1816 because here he had "good hope" of making important geographic discoveries.

References

[http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=108:3:7904351601948579158::NO::P3_FID:1413067]


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