Information About

Point Hopson

Quick Facts

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Location

70 ° 11' 24" N,
146 ° 30' 52.999" W

Region

North Slope

Nearest City

Kaktovik

Point Hopson in Detail.

About

on Beaufort Sea coast, 2 mi. W of Point Sweeney and 7 mi. W of Flaxman I., Arctic Plain

History

Named by Leffingwell (1919, p. 96), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in 1913, "After Fred Hopson, long a resident at Barrow."