Alaska Gazetteer
Oliktok Point is a physical feature (cape) in North Slope Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Oliktok Point |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Cape |
| Description: | E point of entrance to Harrison Bay, on Beaufort Sea coast, 16 mi. W of Beechey Point, Arctic Plain. |
| History: | "Eskimo name reported by Lieutenant W. J. S. Pullen, Royal Navy (RN), as ""Olikto"", meaning ""it shakes or trembles."" On July 24, 1837, P. W. Dease and Thomas Simpson named it ""Point Berens,"" after one of the directors of the Hudson's Bay Company (Simpson, 1843, p. 129). At variance with Sir John Franklin's text. Some of the earlier charts show this to be Beechey Point. E. de K. Leffingwell (1919, p. 93) writes, ""the locative plural case, Oligtone, is used * * * by white men who have lived among the natives for many years.""" |
| Borough: | North Slope Borough |
| Latitude: | 70.5102767944 |
| Longitude: | -149.86000061 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Oliktok Point: Oliktok Point.
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