# Point Franklin

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**Point Franklin** is a piece of land located on the [Chukchi Sea](/source/Chukchi_Sea) side of [North Slope](/source/North_Slope_Borough), [Alaska](/source/Alaska).

Point Franklin is a few miles north of [Wainwright](/source/Wainwright,_Alaska), limiting with the [Peard Bay](/source/Peard_Bay) to the east.

Point Franklin was named by British mariner [Frederick William Beechey](/source/Frederick_William_Beechey) on August 15, 1826, after Lieutenant (afterwards Sir) [John Franklin](/source/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.[1][2]

[Sea otters](/source/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.[3]

## References

1. [USGS](https://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=136:3:10101466444316947266::NO::P3_FID:1408104)

1. Beechey, Frederick William (1832). [*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.*](https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_7YcBAAAAYAAJ). Philadelphia: Carey & Lea. p. [364](https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_7YcBAAAAYAAJ/page/n376) Frederick Beechey 1826.

1. ["Incredible Alaska Overland Rescue"](https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/i/incredible-alaska-overland-rescue.html)

- [A search for sunken ships near Point Franklin](http://www.alaska.com/inalaska/story/9304192p-9218643c.html)
- [Archaeological study on prehistoric villages](https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1997/nsf9778/social.htm)

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