Alaska Gazetteer
Howard Hill is a physical feature (summit) in North Slope Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Howard Hill |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Summit |
| Description: | N of Maybe Creek, at head of Ikpukpuk *iver, Arctic Slope |
| History: | Named by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for Ensign W. L. Howard, U.S. Navy (USN), of Lieutenant G. M. Stoney's Naval Expedition of 1885. They passed along the foot of this hill about May 22, 1886, on the expedition from Ft. Cosmos, on the Kobuk Fiver, to Point Barrow. The name first appears on a fieldsheet by Gerald FitzGerald, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in 1924. |
| Borough: | North Slope Borough |
| Latitude: | 69.3379974365 |
| Longitude: | -154.568344116 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Howard Hill: Howard Hill.
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