Information About

Spy Islands

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Spy Islands on The Map

Location

70 ° 33' 50" N,
149 ° 50' 58.999" W

Region

North Slope

Nearest City

Nuiqsut

Spy Islands in Detail.

About

one of Jones Is., on Beaufort Sea coast, 3.5 mi. N of Oliktok Point, 15 mi. NW of Beechey Point; Arctic Plain.

History

There were "two or three closely connected sand islands," when Leffingwell (1919, p. 99) named them," after the schooner Spy, which went inside them about 1881."

Topo Maps

Beechey Point C-5 (1955), Beechey Point C-5 (1955), Beechey Point (1955), Beechey Point (1955), Beechey Point (1955), Beechey Point (1955), Beechey Point (1955), Beechey Point (1960), Beechey Point (1960), Beechey Point (1960), Beechey Point (1964), Beechey Point C-5 SW (2017),
Places Near Spy Islands
Archipelagos:

Spy Islands,

Capes:

Oliktok Point,

Hills:

Thetis Mound,

Islands:

Leavitt Island,

Rivers:

Ugnuravik River,