Alaska Gazetteer
McLeod Point is a physical feature (cape) in North Slope Borough.
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| Feature Name: | McLeod Point |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Cape |
| Description: | on coast of Beaufort Sea, 4 mi. E of Smith Bay, Arctic Plain. |
| History: | The exact identity of several points of land, in this area, named in 1837 by P W. Dease and Thomas Simpson, are difficult to determine. These points, from east to west, are Mcleod, Mcpherson, and Drew. It seems the Point Mcleod of current maps is applied to what Dease and Simpson named Point Mcpherson, and their Point Mcleod is applied to a small point 3 mi. to the E (Simpson, Thomas, 1843, p. 136-137). |
| Borough: | North Slope Borough |
| Latitude: | 70.8947219849 |
| Longitude: | -153.762496948 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for McLeod Point: McLeod Point.
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