Description
28 mi. SE of Barrow, between Dease Inlet and Elson Lagoon, Arctic Plain
History
Named by Thomas Simpson (1843, p. 150) August 3, 1837, for Chief Factor Christie of the Hudson's Bay Company, "a warm personal friend, and also a zealous promoter of the interests of the expedition." The Eskimo name Tool=a=via, is shown by Maguire (Great Britain, 1854, map facing p. 186) and may mean (Tulavik) "place for coming ashore."