Information About

Anxiety Point

Quick Facts

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Location

70 ° 18' 56.999" N,
147 ° 57' 41" W

Region

North Slope

Nearest City

Nuiqsut

Elevation

7 ft (2.13 m)

Anxiety Point in Detail.

About

E tip and highest point of Howe I., in Sagavanirktok River Delta, Arctic Plain

History

Named "Point Anxiety" August 16, 1826, by Sir John Franklin (1828, p. 158); described as "the point we had so often attempted to reach."