Hotham Inlet

Hotham Inlet in Detail.

6 mi. wide, on west coast of Alaska, bounded on SW by Baldwin Peninsula, Kotzebue-Kobuk Low. 50 miles long.

Named in 1826 by Captain Beechey (1831, p. 250), Royal Navy (RN), who wrote "we were surprised to find ourselves oppososit a deep inlet which had escaped the observation of Captain Kotzebue. I names it Hotham Inlet, in compliment to the Hon. Sir Henry Hotham, K.C.B., one of the lords of the Admiralty." Sir Henry Hotham "was concerned with the interruption of Napoleon after the battle of Waterloo ***"; (Stuck, 1920, p77). Archdeacon Stuck gave the local name as "Kobuk Lake" (Stuck, Kobuk p. 75)