Description
Cape Dyer is located on Chukchi Sea coast, 16 mi. S of Cape Lisburne, Arctic Slope.
History
Named about 1827 by Captain Beechey (1831, map p. 328). The Eskimo name for Cape Dyer, as well as the old village, is Capaloa (Kapaloak), according to J. B. Driggs, a Point Hope missionary (Collier, 1906, p. 44).