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Point Hopson

Point Hopson

Region:
  • North Slope
Nearest City:
About

on Beaufort Sea coast, 2 mi. W of Point Sweeney and 7 mi. W of Flaxman I., Arctic Plain

History of Point Hopson

Named by Leffingwell (1919, p. 96), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in 1913, "After Fred Hopson, long a resident at Barrow."