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Port Moore in North Slope Borough AK

Port Moore, North Slope Borough, Alaska

Port Moore is a physical feature (bay) in North Slope Borough.

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Feature Name:	Port Moore
Category:	Alaska physical, cultural and historic features
Feature Type:	Physical
Class:	Bay
Description:	SE side of Point Barrow at W end of Elson Lagoon, Arctic Plain.
History:	"Commander Rochfort Maguire (Great Britain, 1854, map facing p. 188) applied the name ""Moore's Harbor"" to the area just S of Plover Point where he wintered the H.M.S. Plover in 1852-53. The subsequent 1853 British Admiralty (Brit. Adm.) Chart 2164 used the name ""Port Moore."" It commemorates Commander Thomas E. L. Moore, Royal Navy (RN) (Leffingwell, 1919, p. 97)."
Borough:	North Slope Borough
Latitude:	71.3816680908
Longitude:	-156.447494507

Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Port Moore: Port Moore.

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