Description

Drew Point is located on coast of Beaufort Sea, E point of entrance to Smith Bay, Arctic Plain.

History

On July 28, 1837 Thomas Simpson (1843, p. 138) wrote, "we reached a point, named after Richard Drew, Esquire, of the Hudson's Bay Company. The Eskimo name "Amil-rhoen" appears on Maguire's map (Great Britain, 1854, facing p. 186).

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