Description
Pole Island is located on Beaufort Sea coast, westernmost island of Stockton Is., 19.5 mi. NW of Flaxman I., Arctic Plain. 2.5 miles long.
History
In 1910 Leffingwell (1919, p. 98) wrote, This may not have been the original location, for there is no settled usage among the whalers. This island was named by Whalers probably because a pole once was erected on its shore to identify the island.