Description
Niakuk Islands is located off-shore group, extends W of Heald Point, at mouth of Prudhoe Bay, on Beaufort Sea coast, 23 mi. SE of Beechey Point, Arctic Plain.
History
Eskimo name meaning "head" (neaqoq); reported by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) in 1949. This name may be the same as that reported by Surgeon John Simpson on his 1853 native map as Niako. See Niako I.