Alaska Gazetteer
Lopp Lagoon is a physical feature (bay) in Nome Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Lopp Lagoon |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Bay |
| Description: | on NW coast of Seward Peninsula, 2 mi. NE of Cape Prince of Wales and 52 mi. NW of Teller, Kotzebue-Kobuk Low. |
| History: | "Named in 1900 by A. H. Brooks, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), for ""Reverend William Thomas Lopp, of Indiana, a missionary to the Eskimo, who began work here in 1890"" (Baker, 1906, p. 413). According to Schrader and Brooks (1900, p. 25), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Lopp was in charge of a U.S. government reindeer station in 1899 and employed Kivyearzuk, the Eskimo who discovered gold in the Cape York region." |
| Borough: | Nome Borough |
| Latitude: | 65.7194976807 |
| Longitude: | -167.764465332 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Lopp Lagoon: Lopp Lagoon.
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