Point Hope

Town in North Slope Borough, northwestern Alaska, USA, on the Lisburne Peninsula and the Chukchi Sea, at the western end of the Brooks Range, 900 km/560 mi northwest of Fairbanks and 480 km/300 mi southwest of Barrow; population (1990) 600. It is principally an Inuit sealing and fishing community.

The Cape Krusenstern National Monument on Cape Krusenstern, 170 km/105 mi to the southeast, is a 267,300-ha/660,000-ac reserve containing the remains of over 100 successive beachfront communities going back about 6,000 years; the area offers significant evidence of early settlement in western Alaska.