Alaska Gazetteer
Niako Island is a physical feature (island) in North Slope Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Niako Island |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Island |
| Description: | in Sagavanirktok River Delta, near Heald Point, on Beaufort Sea coast Arctic Plain. |
| History: | "This name first appears on Surgeon John Simpson's 1853 native map on which he notes ""First sleeping place of the natives of Pt. Barrow, traveling from Colville R. to Pt. Berens."" Leffingwell (1919, p. 91 refers to it as a small island at Heald Point * * *."" This place cannot be definitely identified, but may refer to present-day Niakuk Island near Heald Point." |
| Borough: | North Slope Borough |
| Latitude: | 70.3497543335 |
| Longitude: | -148.231216431 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Niako Island: Niako Island.
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 Niako Island does not include property ownership information.
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