Description
Lopp Lagoon is located on NW coast of Seward Peninsula, 2 mi. NE of Cape Prince of Wales and 52 mi. NW of Teller, Kotzebue-Kobuk Low.
History
Named in 1900 by A. H. Brooks, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), for "Reverend William Thomas Lopp, of Indiana, a missionary to the Eskimo, who began work here in 1890" (Baker, 1906, p. 413). According to Schrader and Brooks (1900, p. 25), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Lopp was in charge of a U.S. government reindeer station in 1899 and employed Kivyearzuk, the Eskimo who discovered gold in the Cape York region.