Point Franklin is a piece of land located on the Chukchi Sea side of North Slope, Alaska.
Point Franklin is a few miles north of Wainwright, limiting with the Peard Bay to the east.
[1][2] Sea otters are a common sight in the waters near Point Franklin.
On 26 March 1898, after a 1,500-mile trek in the middle of an Arctic winter, Lt. David Henry Jarvis of the Revenue Cutter Service reaches Point Franklin to begin the rescue of 273 iced-in whalers stranded here and at Point Barrow.
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