70 ° 7' 5.002" N,
143 ° 40' 0.001" W
North Slope
56 ft (17.07 m)
On the Arctic coast E of Arey Island. On coast of Beaufort Sea between Arey and Kaktovick Lagoons, 62 mi. NW of Demarcation Point, Arctic Plain.
HistoryOn August 4, 1826, Sir John Franklin (1828, p. 146), assuming it part of the mainland, applied the name "Point Manning" to the E point of this island. Franklin's original "Barter Island" was renamed "Arey Island" by Leffingwell (1919, p. 93), because local usage had applied the name Barter Island to the above location. John Simpson's native map dated 1855, shows "Tungak island," and on what appears to be present-day Manning Point the Eskimo name "Nu-wu-ak Point" is shown with the note "the place of barter." this is probably the source of the name Barter Island. Leffingwell gives the Eskimo name for the island as "Kaktoavik" meaning "seining place." Vilhjalmur Stefansson spells this name "Kaaktovik." See Arey Island, Kaktovik Lagoon, and Manning Point.
Sorted by Most Common to Least Common Viewings
Snow Goose, Glaucous Gull, Long-tailed Duck, Aleutian Cackling Goose, Greater White-fronted Goose, Surf Scoter, Common Eider, Red-breasted Merganser, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Snow Bunting, Ross's Gull, Lapland Longspur, Red-throated Loon, Northern Pintail, Green-winged Teal, King Eider, Black-legged Kittiwake, Common Loon, Long-billed Dowitcher, Red Phalarope, Pectoral Sandpiper, Arctic Tern, Common Raven, Sabine's Gull, Cackling Goose, Sandhill Crane, Red-necked Phalarope, Canada Goose, Stilt Sandpiper, Sanderling, Northern Shoveler, Willow Ptarmigan, Ruddy Turnstone, Dunlin, Snowy Owl, Short-eared Owl, American Golden Plover, Tundra Swan, Lesser Scaup, Mallard, Common Merganser, Baird's Sandpiper, Pomarine Jaeger, Savannah Sparrow, American Wigeon, Greater Scaup, Long-tailed Jaeger, Glaucous-winged Gull, Parasitic Jaeger, White-winged Scoter, Rock Ptarmigan, Western Sandpiper, Pacific Loon, Rough-legged Hawk, Spectacled Eider, Wilson's Snipe, Ivory Gull, Yellow-billed Loon, Horned Lark, Buff-bellied Pipit, Steller's Eider, Harlequin Duck, Common Nighthawk, Black-bellied Plover, Semipalmated Plover, Black Turnstone, Least Sandpiper, Herring Gull, Iceland Gull, Slaty-backed Gull, Golden Eagle, Northern Harrier, Bald Eagle, American Kestrel, Peregrine Falcon, Dark-eyed Junco, Rusty Blackbird, Northern Waterthrush, Wilson's Warbler
Arey Lagoon, Bernard Harbor, Kaktovik Lagoon, Pipsuk Bight,
Capes:Channels:Kuvritovik Entrance, Nelsaluk Pass,
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