Leffingwell Camp Site
The Leffingwell Camp Site, on Flaxman Island, 58 miles west of Barter Island on the Arctic Coast of Alaska, was used by polar explorer and geologist Ernest de Koven Leffingwell on his pioneering Anglo-American Polar Expedition of 1906–1908, which aimed to explore the Beaufort Sea.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Leffingwell Camp Site
- Type: Historic site
- Description: camp site on Flaxman Island in Alaska, USA
- Categories: campsite, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: North Slope, Alaska, United States, North America
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Latitude
70.18581° or 70° 11′ 9″ northLongitude
-146.05343° or 146° 3′ 12″ westOpen location code
C32M5WPW+8JOpenStreetMap ID
way 476184302OpenStreetMap feature
historic=yesWikidata ID
Q6516660
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Japanese—“Leffingwell Camp Site” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Leffingwell Camp Site”
- Japanese: “フラクスマン島”
- Japanese: “レフィングウェル・キャンプ・サイト”
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