Information About

Lion Bay

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Lion Bay on The Map

Location

70 ° 10' 0.001" N,
146 ° 0' 0" W

Region

North Slope

Nearest City

Kaktovik

Lion Bay in Detail.

About

on Beaufort Sea coast between Flaxman I. and mainland, extending W of Point Brownlow, Arctic Plain.

History

Probably named for one of the two boats used by Sir John Franklin's party in 1826; the name, however, is recent.

Birds Sighted Here

Sorted by Most Common to Least Common Viewings

Surf Scoter, Long-tailed Duck, Aleutian Cackling Goose, Snow Goose, King Eider, Red-necked Phalarope, Pectoral Sandpiper, Lapland Longspur, Glaucous Gull, Northern Pintail, Greater White-fronted Goose, Cackling Goose, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Canada Goose, Pomarine Jaeger, American Golden Plover, Red Phalarope, Long-billed Dowitcher, Pacific Loon, Arctic Tern, White-winged Scoter, Common Eider, Black-bellied Plover, Dunlin, Long-tailed Jaeger, Snow Bunting, Parasitic Jaeger, Bonaparte's Gull, Tundra Swan, Red-breasted Merganser, Sabine's Gull, Greater Scaup, Rock Ptarmigan, American Wigeon, Green-winged Teal, Sandhill Crane, Ruddy Turnstone, Stilt Sandpiper, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Red-throated Loon, Snowy Owl, Hoary Redpoll, Western Sandpiper, Northern Shoveler, Common Merganser, Whimbrel, Common Raven, Common Redpoll, Savannah Sparrow, Sanderling, Spectacled Eider, Northern Harrier, Short-eared Owl, Mallard, Semipalmated Plover, White-rumped Sandpiper, Bar-tailed Godwit, Yellow-billed Loon, Steller's Eider, Baird's Sandpiper, Common Gull, Rough-legged Hawk, Lesser Scaup, Ruff, Wandering Tattler, Bald Eagle, Peregrine Falcon, Buff-bellied Pipit, Ross's Goose, Gadwall, Eurasian Wigeon, Canvasback, Willow Ptarmigan, Herring Gull, Golden Eagle, Horned Lark, American Robin, Eastern Yellow Wagtail, Common Goldeneye, Red Knot, Red-necked Stint, Least Sandpiper, Wilson's Snipe, Ivory Gull, Ross's Gull, Iceland Gull, Northern Fulmar, Osprey, Merlin, Say's Phoebe, Tree Swallow, Barn Swallow, Cliff Swallow, Arctic Warbler, Varied Thrush, White-winged Crossbill, Pine Siskin, Smith's Longspur, American Tree Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Golden-crowned Sparrow, Yellow-rumped Warbler

Places Near Lion Bay
Bays:

Lion Bay,

Capes:

Point Brownlow, Brownlow Point,

Islands:

Flaxman Island,

Rivers:

Staines River, West Canning River,