Alaska Gazetteer
Chipp River is a physical feature (stream) in North Slope Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Chipp River |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Stream |
| Description: | western distributary of Ikpikpuk River, heads at 701935N1545350W flows NW to Admiralty Bay, S of Dease Inlet, Arctic Plain. 70 miles long. |
| History: | "As a footnote to Ensign W. L. Howard's report on his trip from the Kobuk River to Point Barrow, in the spring of 1886, when mentioning the Eskimo name for the stream as ""Ikpikpuk,"" Lieutenant G. M. Stoney (1900, p. 73) states "" I renamed this river the ""Chipp"" after Lieutenant 'Chipp' (Charles Winans, U.S. Navy (USN)) who was lost on the Jeannette expedition (De Long expedition in 1881)."" The Board on Geographic Names (BGN), in 1925 however, retained the Eskimo name for the main stream, and reapplied the name 'Chipp' to the west distributary of the Ikpikpuk River." |
| Borough: | North Slope Borough |
| Latitude: | 70.8305587769 |
| Longitude: | -155.60333252 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Chipp River: Chipp River.
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