Cooper Island is a physical feature (island) in North Slope Borough.
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Feature Name: | Cooper Island |
Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
Feature Type: | Physical |
Class: | Island |
Description: | on Beaufort Sea coast, in Plover Is., 23 mi. E of Barrow, Arctic Plain. 3 miles long. |
History: | "Named by Commander Thomas E. L. Moore, Royal Navy (RN), in 1849-50 for one of his officers on His (Her) Majesty's Ship (HMS) Plover (Leffingwell, 1919, p. 97). The Eskimo name is ""Iglurak"" meaning, in a general sense, ""sod house like"" because two mounds on the island appear like sod houses from a distance. Leffingwell (1919, p. 95 ) gives the meaning as ""small iglu.""" |
Borough: | North Slope Borough |
Latitude: | 71.23777771 |
Longitude: | -155.679718018 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Cooper Island: Cooper 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 Cooper Island does not include property ownership information.