Alaska Gazetteer
Tigvariak Island is a physical feature (island) in North Slope Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Tigvariak Island |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Island |
| Description: | between Mikkelsen and Foggy I Bays, on Beaufort Sea coast, 23 mi. W of Flaxman I., Arctic Plain |
| History: | "E. de K. Leffingwell (1919, p. 100), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), adopted this Eskimo name for the island, which Franklin, Royal Navy (RN), (1828, p. 152) originally named ""Lion and Reliance Reef,"" after his two boats, the Lion having been driven aground at this place. Leffingwell applied Franklin's names to ""the NE and NW points of the islands***."" Lieutenant W. H. Hooper, RN, in 1853, calls this Lion Island. As the name ""Lion"" has been misapplied on the early charts, Hooper may have been referring to the chain of islands lying several miles to the north. The Eskimo name Tigvariak means ""portage.""" |
| Borough: | North Slope Borough |
| Latitude: | 70.2222213745 |
| Longitude: | -147.218612671 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Tigvariak Island: Tigvariak Island.
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