[1] It is located in the Seward Peninsula on the Chukchi Sea coast.
Cape Deceit extends into Kotzebue Sound, 2 mi.
"Deceit" is a translation of the German Betrug, for Kotzebue thought that there was something about the shape of the cape and its surroundings that indicated a bay that did not exist.
The Eastern Beringian vole, Microtus deceitensis, has been named after Cape Deceit.
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