Lisburne Peninsula
| Lisburne Peninsula | ||
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ N , 165 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W | |
| Waters 1 | Chukchi Sea ( Arctic Ocean ) | |
The Lisburne Peninsula ( English Lisburne Peninsula ) is a trapezoidal peninsula in northwest Alaska on the Chukchi Sea . It lies north of the Kotzebue Sound and is delimited 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 is part of Cape Lisburne , which in 1778 by James Cook was named and that is its name to the peninsula. To the southwest is located on a barrier peninsula Point Hope and the South East, the Cape Krusenstern National Monument . The Lisburne Hills with the 623 m high Mount Hamlet run along the west coast . In the south of the peninsula of the flows Marryat Inlet opens Kukpuk River .