Elephant Point (Alaska)

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."

A populated place named Elephant Point lies nearby.

This article about a location in the Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska is a stub.