Description
Point Chandos is located on Beaufort Sea coast, 26 mi. SE of Beechey Point, Arctic Plain.
History
This point has not been positively identified. Named by Sir John Franklin (1828. p. 158), August 16, 1826, who wrote * * * "between Point Anxiety and Point Chandos, which is eight miles further to the westward." From this description Point Chandos located tentatively as the western side of the delta of the Sagavanirktok (in Leffingwell, 1919, p. 94), and as "the eastern point of entrance to Yarboro inlet * * *" according to Baker (1906, p. 168).