Thetis Island is a physical feature (island) in North Slope Borough.
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Feature Name: | Thetis Island |
Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
Feature Type: | Physical |
Class: | Island |
Description: | on coast of Beaufort Sea, the W island of the Jones Islands, Arctic Plain. |
History: | "In 1889 the revenue cutter U.S.S. Thetis under command of Captain Charles H. Stockton, U.S. Navy (USN), ""skirted along some long, low islands, which stretched between the mouth of the Colville and Return Reef. These islands, * * * (he) designated the Thetis Islands"" (Leffingwell, 1919, p. 100), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Because these islands had previously been discovered and named ""Jones Islands"" by Dease and Simpson in 1837, Leffingwell applied the name ""Thetis"" to the unnamed western island of this chain of barrier islands (p. 91). Leffingwell (p. 100) reports the Eskimo name ""Amaudliktok,"" meaning perhaps ""Pacific eider,"" but spells it ""Amandliktok"" on his map. He further reports the whalers call this ""West Thetis Island.""" |
Borough: | North Slope Borough |
Latitude: | 70.557220459 |
Longitude: | -150.167770386 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Thetis Island: Thetis 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 Thetis Island does not include property ownership information.