Description
Pacific Shoal is located on coast of Beaufort Sea, 5 mi. E of Cape Halkett, at mouth of Harrison Bay, Arctic Plain.
History
Named in 1889 by Captain Stockton, U.S. Navy (USN), for the whaling ship Pacific, whose master, Captain Knowles, first reported this shoal (Leffingwell, 1919, p. 83-84).