on Chukchi Sea coast, 40 mi. SW of Cape Lisburne, Arctic Slope
Named August 2, 1826 by Captain Beechey (1831, p. 265), Royal Navy (RN), who wrote, "I named it Point Hope in compliment to Sir William Johnstone Hope". According to Archdeacon Stuck (1920, p. 96) Hope was from a "well-known house long connected with the sea". The Russians discovered this point of land late in the eighteenth century and called it "M(ys) Golovnia" or "Cape Golovnin". The Eskimo name is descriptive, "Tikarakh" or "tikiqaq" commonly spelled "Tiagara," meaning "forefinger".