Alaska Gazetteer
Howard Pass is a physical feature (gap) in North Slope Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Howard Pass |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Gap |
| Description: | in Brooks Range, forms divide between Aniuk and Etivluk Rivers |
| History: | Named for Ensign William Lauriston Howard, 1860-1930, U.S. Navy (USN), who, while with Lieutenant G. M. Stoney's naval %xpedition to northern Alaska, made an expedition from Fort Cosmos, on the Kobuk River, to Point Barrow. Howard's route carried him through this Pass on April 21, 1886 (Stoney, 1900, p. 66-77). The name first appears on a fieldsheet by Gerald FitzGerald, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in 1925. |
| Borough: | North Slope Borough |
| Latitude: | 68.2122192383 |
| Longitude: | -156.898330688 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Howard Pass: Howard Pass.
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