Alaska Gazetteer
North Slope is a physical feature (area) in North Slope Borough.
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| Feature Name: | North Slope |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Area |
| Description: | area of Alaska, consisting of all land that drains to the Artic Ocean N of the Brooks Range divide, generally excluding the area S of Cape Lisburne, Arctic Slope & Arctic Plain |
| History: | "The descriptive expression ""north slope"" (or ""northern slope"") was comm used interchangeably with Arctic slpe as early as the first decade of this century. Since the 1940's the term has taken on the more concrete aspect of a proper name." |
| Borough: | North Slope Borough |
| Latitude: | 69 |
| Longitude: | -152 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for North Slope: North Slope.
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 North Slope does not include property ownership information.
