Cape Nome is a physical feature (cape) in Nome (CA) Borough. The primary coordinates for Cape Nome places it within the 99762 ZIP Code delivery area.
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Feature Name: | Cape Nome |
Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
Feature Type: | Physical |
Class: | Cape |
Description: | on Norton Sound, 12 mi. SW of Nome and 20 mi. SW of Solomon, Seward Peninsula High. |
History: | "Name ""M(ys) Tolstoy,"" meaning ""blunt"" or ""broad"" in 1833 by Captain M.D. Tebenkov, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN). The 1852 Russian Hydrographic Dept. Chart 1455 shows ""M(ys) Sredniy (tolstyy)"" or ""Cape Middle (broad)."" ""C(ape) Nome"" appears on the 1853 British Admiralty (Brit. Adm.) Chart 2172. Its origin is generally attributed to an Admiralty draftsman's misinterpretation of ""?"" name"" annotated on a manuscript chart constructed on board the H.M.S. Herald about 1850=1852. The ""?"" mark was taken as a ""C"" and the ""a"" was thought to be an ""o."" This is the explanation given by the Chief Cartographer of the British Admiralty in 1900." |
Borough: | Nome (CA) Borough |
Latitude: | 64.4375 |
Longitude: | -165.006393433 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Cape Nome: Cape Nome.
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Cape Nome, AK
(2.4 miles NE) Port Safety, AK (5.5 miles E) Bessie No 5 Dredge Camp, AK (8.9 miles NNW) |
Summit, AK
(14.2 miles NW) Perkinsville, AK (14.5 miles WNW) Solomon, AK (18.9 miles ENE) |