Point Lay (Kali in Inupiaq- "Mound") is a census-designated place (CDP) in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States.
Point Lay once was on a barrier island of Kasegaluk Lagoon, but moved to the mainland near the mouth of the Kokolik River during the 1970s.
Apart from its landmass that is in mainland Alaska, it also consists two peninsulas that are found on its most northwestern side.
Point Lay has a tundra climate (Koppen ET) with long, very cold winters and short, cool to mild summers.
The original settlement on the barrier island was relocated a mile to the east on the mainland in the 1970s.
The new village of Point Lay returned on the 1980 U.S. Census and was made a census-designated place (CDP).
The racial makeup of the CDP was 88.4% Native American, 10.1% White, 0.5% Pacific Islander and 0.5% from two or more races.
These were a part of the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of defensive radar installations built during the Cold War.