Elephant Point (Alaska)

Elephant Point (Iñupiaq: Siŋik) is a headland in Kotzebue Sound, Chukchi Sea in Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, United States.[1]

It extends northeast into Eschscholtz Bay, 44 miles (71 km) southeast of Selawik.

This headland was named in 1826 by Royal Navy Captain Frederick William Beechey who wrote in his log: "I bestowed the name of Elephant upon the point, to mark its vicinity to the place where the fossils (bones of elephants) were found." Those bones probably belonged to mammoths.

A populated place named Elephant Point lies nearby.[2]

  1. ^ "Feature Detail Report for: Elephant Point (cape)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ "Feature Detail Report for: Elephant Point (populated place)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.