Norton Sound

The Norton Sound (Inupiaq: Imaqpak) is an inlet of the Bering Sea on the western coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, south of the Seward Peninsula.

He named the body of water after Sir Fletcher Norton, then Speaker of the British House of Commons.

[1] The villages of Elim, Golovin, Stebbins, White Mountain, Koyuk, Shaktoolik, St. Michael, and Unalakleet are on the shores or waterways flowing into Norton Sound.

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race runs through coastal villages between Unalakleet and Nome.

The Eliot Staples Bering Sea Ice Golf Classic occurs at the sound in mid-March.