on coast of Beaufort Sea, W point of entrance to Smith Bay, Arctic Plain
On July 28, 1837, Thomas Simpson (1843, p. 138) wrote: "we encamped on the extremity of this well-defined point, which, as a testimony of sincere respect and regard for the able and indefatigable Governor of all the Company's (Hudson's Bay) territories, we named Cape George Simpson." The Eskimo name We-wa-le-ah appears on Maguire's chart (Great Britain, 1854, facing p. 186).