Information About

Milne Point

Quick Facts

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Location

70 ° 30' 59" N,
149 ° 27' 31" W

Region

North Slope

Nearest City

Nuiqsut

Milne Point in Detail.

About

on Beaufort Sea coast, 7 mi. W of Beechey Point, Arctic Plain.

History

Named "Point Milne" by P. W. Dease and Thomas Simpson on July 24, 1837 (in Simpson, 1843, p. 129). Leffingwell (1919, p. 89) writes, "Point Milne has been placed (by Leffingwell) on a conspicuous point on the mainland in the approximate position indicated by the Dease and Simpson map."