Eskimo Islands

Eskimo Islands in Detail.

In Harrison Bay, at mouth of Kogru River, 2.4 km (1.5 mi) east of Saktuina Point, Arctic Plain.

Named "Esquimaux Island" by Peter Warren Dease and Thomas Simpson on August 7, 1837 (Simpson, Thomas, 1843, p. 170) because upon landing they found "numerous vestiges of Esquimaux." Macquire's map (Great Britain, 1854, facing p. 186) shows "Saktuina Island," a name that now is applied to the mainland point west of the islands. Leffingwell (1919, p. 95) is responsible for the present plural form and application to a place, "near the place where Dease and Simpson put the name."