Alaska Gazetteer
Deer Pond is a physical feature (lake) in North Slope Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Deer Pond |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Lake |
| Description: | on coast of Beaufort Sea, near Point Mcleod, Arctic Plain |
| History: | "This name is shown as a pond or lake on Simpson's map, but actually is, what he calls, a ""reindeer /caribou/ pound, simply contrived with double rows of turf /inuksuk/ set up to represent men, and enclosing a space of ground lower than the rest. The enclosure was two miles broad at the beach, and narrowed towards a lake of some extent, where the unsuspecting animals are surrounded and speared in the water /tutusiuvaktuat/"" (Simpson, 1843, p. 135- 136)." |
| Borough: | North Slope Borough |
| Latitude: | 70.9000015259 |
| Longitude: | -153.5 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Deer Pond: Deer Pond.
Note that you do not have the right to enter private property without the owner's permission. You do have a right to access goverment property that is open to the general public. The GNIS Feature Detail Report for Deer Pond does not include property ownership information.
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