{{Short description|Point on North Slope, Alaska, U.S.}} '''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.
Point Franklin was named by British mariner Frederick William Beechey on August 15, 1826, after Lieutenant (afterwards Sir) John Franklin. It is a strange coincidence that he named this cape just two days after Sir John Franklin had named his "farthest point" after Captain Beechey.<ref>[https://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=136:3:10101466444316947266::NO::P3_FID:1408104 USGS]</ref><ref name=Beechey>{{cite book | last = Beechey | first = Frederick William | title = Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait: to co-operate with the Polar expeditions : performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N. ... in the years 1825,26,27,28. | publisher = Carey & Lea | year = 1832 | location = Philadelphia | url = https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_7YcBAAAAYAAJ| page = [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_7YcBAAAAYAAJ/page/n376 364] | quote = Frederick Beechey 1826. }}</ref>
Sea otters are a common sight in the waters near Point Franklin. Whales can also be sighted offshore in the point area.
==Rescue of 1898== 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. He finds the marooned whalers of the Belvedere near the Sea Horse Islands.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/i/incredible-alaska-overland-rescue.html|title=Incredible Alaska Overland Rescue}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}} * [http://www.alaska.com/inalaska/story/9304192p-9218643c.html A search for sunken ships near Point Franklin] * [https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1997/nsf9778/social.htm Archaeological study on prehistoric villages]
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Franklin Category:Landforms of North Slope Borough, Alaska
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