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Challenge Entrance

Challenge Entrance

Quick Facts
Region:
  • North Slope
Nearest City:
About

on Beaufort Sea coast, between Maguire and Stockton Is., 10 mi. NW of Flaxman I., Arctic Plain

History of Challenge Entrance

Named by Leffingwell (1919, p. 94) about 1913, "after the schooner Challenge of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, which is believed to have been the first vessel to pass through the passage."

Places Near Challenge Entrance
Archipelagos:

Maguire Islands,

Capes:

Bullen Point, Point Gordon, Point Hopson,

Channels:

Challenge Entrance,

Islands:

Alaska Island, Challenge Island,