Lisburne Peninsula

Geographical location

The Lisburne Peninsula (English Lisburne Peninsula ) is a trapezoidal Peninsula in northwest Alaska in the Chukchi Sea. It lies north of Kotzebue Sound and is bordered by the De Long Mountains to the North Slope and the Noatak National Preserve.

The north-westerly point is the the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge Cape Lisburne belonging, which was named in 1778 by James Cook and that is eponymous for the peninsula. In the southwest lies on a barrier headland Point Hope and the South East, Cape Krusenstern National Monument. Along the west coast there are the Lisburne Hills with the 623 m high Mount Hamlet. In the south of the peninsula of the Marryat Inlet which opens Kukpuk River flows.