Elephant Point (Alaska)
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Elephant Point (Iñupiaq: Siŋik) is a headland in Kotzebue Sound, Chukchi Sea in Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, United States.[1]
It extends northeast into Eschscholtz Bay, 44 miles (71 km) southeast of Selawik.
This headland was named in 1826 by Royal Navy Captain Frederick William Beechey who wrote in his log: "I bestowed the name of Elephant upon the point, to mark its vicinity to the place where the fossils (bones of elephants) were found." Those bones probably belonged to mammoths.
A populated place named Elephant Point lies nearby.[2]
Demographics
Elephant Point appeared once on the 1950 U.S. Census as an unincorporated village. It was also known as Buckland Post Office. Residents from Buckland relocated from there for a brief period before returning to that village.[4]
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