Alaska Gazetteer
Point Chandos is a physical feature (cape) in North Slope Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Point Chandos |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Cape |
| Description: | on Beaufort Sea coast, 26 mi. SE of Beechey Point, Arctic Plain. |
| History: | "This point has not been positively identified. Named by Sir John Franklin (1828. p. 158), August 16, 1826, who wrote * * * ""between Point Anxiety and Point Chandos, which is eight miles further to the westward."" From this description Point Chandos located tentatively as the western side of the delta of the Sagavanirktok (in Leffingwell, 1919, p. 94), and as ""the eastern point of entrance to Yarboro inlet * * *"" according to Baker (1906, p. 168)." |
| Borough: | North Slope Borough |
| Latitude: | 70.3324356079 |
| Longitude: | -148.215805054 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Point Chandos: Point Chandos.
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 Point Chandos does not include property ownership information.
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