Information About

Tigvariak Island

Quick Facts

Region:

North Slope

Nearest City:

Kaktovik

Elevation:

10 ft (3.05 m)

About

between Mikkelsen and Foggy I Bays, on Beaufort Sea coast, 23 mi. W of Flaxman I., Arctic Plain

History of Tigvariak Island

E. de K. Leffingwell (1919, p. 100), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), adopted this Eskimo name for the island, which Franklin, Royal Navy (RN), (1828, p. 152) originally named "Lion and Reliance Reef," after his two boats, the Lion having been driven aground at this place. Leffingwell applied Franklin's names to "the NE and NW points of the islands***." Lieutenant W. H. Hooper, RN, in 1853, calls this Lion Island. As the name "Lion" has been misapplied on the early charts, Hooper may have been referring to the chain of islands lying several miles to the north. The Eskimo name Tigvariak means "portage."

Found on the following Topo Maps

Beechey Point A-1 (1955), Beechey Point A-1 (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 A-1 (1962), Beechey Point (1964), Beechey Point A-1 NE (2017),

Places Near Tigvariak Island

Archipelagos:

McClure Islands,

Bays:

Mikkelsen Bay,

Capes:

Lion Point, Reliance Point,

Channels:

Newport Entrance,

Islands:

Jeanette Island, Karluk Island, Pole Island, Tigvariak Island,

Rivers:

Kavik River, Shaviovik River,