between Simpson Cove and Camden Bay, 30 mi. SW of Barter I., Arctic Plain
Named by Lieutenant Commander C. H. Stockton, U.S. Navy (USN), for Captain Richard Collinson, Royal Navy (RN), of the H.M.S. Enterprise who explored along the north coast of Alaska in 1851 and in 1853-54. The Eskimo name for this point of land according to Leffingwell (1919, p. 94) was "Nuwuak", which he indicates may mean "influenza." This may be the word "nuvak" meaning "cough," but may just as likely be "nuvuk" meaning "cape" or "point of land."