Flaxman Island
Flaxman Island is an island in North Slope, Alaska.Places of Interest
Highlights include Leffingwell Camp Site.
Leffingwell Camp Site
Historic site
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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.
Flaxman Island
- Type: Island
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: North Slope, Alaska, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
70.1894° or 70° 11′ 22″ northLongitude
-146.1038° or 146° 6′ 14″ westOpen location code
C32M5VQW+PFOpenStreetMap ID
way 476184303OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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