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Anxiety Point

Anxiety Point

Quick Facts
Region:
  • North Slope
Nearest City:
Elevation:
  • 7 ft (2.13 m)
About

E tip and highest point of Howe I., in Sagavanirktok River Delta, Arctic Plain

History of Anxiety Point

Named "Point Anxiety" August 16, 1826, by Sir John Franklin (1828, p. 158); described as "the point we had so often attempted to reach."