Description

Spy Islands is located one of Jones Is., on Beaufort Sea coast, 3.5 mi. N of Oliktok Point, 15 mi. NW of Beechey Point; Arctic Plain.

History

There were "two or three closely connected sand islands," when Leffingwell (1919, p. 99) named them," after the schooner Spy, which went inside them about 1881."

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