Alaska Gazetteer
Leavitt Island is a physical feature (island) in North Slope Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Leavitt Island |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Island |
| Description: | one of Jones Island on Beaufort Sea coast, W of Pingok I., Arctic Plain |
| History: | "E. de K. Leffingwell (1919, p. 97) originally named ""the largest of the Jones Islands, * * * Leavitt Island, * * * after Captain (George) Leavitt of the whaling fleet."" Leffingwell gave its Eskimo name as ""Pingok,"" meaning ""mound,"" which name is applied to the largest island on present day maps." |
| Borough: | North Slope Borough |
| Latitude: | 70.5691680908 |
| Longitude: | -149.674163818 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Leavitt Island: Leavitt 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 Leavitt Island does not include property ownership information.
