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{{Short description|Cape in Alaska, United States of America}}
{{Infobox landform
| name         = Icy Cape
| other_name   = 
| type         = [[Cape (geography)|Cape]]
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| map          = Alaska
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| relief       = yes
| location     = [[North Slope Borough, Alaska|North Slope Borough]], [[Alaska]], [[United States]]
| water_bodies =[[Chukchi Sea]]
| coordinates  = {{coord|70|19|47|N|161|52|27|W|type:landmark_region:US_scale:1000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
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| area         = [[Arctic]] 
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The '''Icy Cape''' is a headland on the [[Chukchi Sea]] side of the [[North Slope Borough, Alaska|North Slope Borough]], [[Alaska]], [[United States]].  It was discovered and named by [[James Cook]] on August 17, 1778, on account of the ice along the coast.<ref name=Hough>{{cite book
  | last = Hough
  | first = Richard
  | title = Captain James Cook: a biography
  | publisher = Norton
  | year = 1994
  | location = New York
}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n163 164]}}</ref>

Icy Cape is in an area of [[landspit]]s, bounded by [[Kasegaluk Lagoon]] to the east and [[Sikolik Lake]] further inland.

[[Pink salmon]] and [[Arctic char]] are abundant in the waters near Icy Cape. Whales can also easily be sighted offshore in the Icy Cape area.

Icy Cape was formerly the site of the [[Icy Cape DEW Line Station]], a [[United States Air Force]] [[Distant Early Warning Line]] Radar station

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1880= 50
|1890= 57
|align-fn=center
}}
Icy Cape appeared on the 1880 U.S. Census as the Inuit village of Otok-kok. It returned as Icy Cape in 1890.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rr9RAQAAMAAJ&q=otokkok&pg=PA49 |title = Geological Survey Professional Paper|year = 1949}}</ref>

== In popular culture ==
Icy Cape is the setting for "[[Ice (The X-Files)|Ice]]", an episode of the first season of the American television series ''[[The X-Files]]''.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Citation|title=Alaska Waterways, Kasegaluk Lagoon: Trip Report for Kasegaluk Lagoon|url=http://www.outdoorsdirectory.com/boating/arl/kasegaluk.htm|access-date=October 13, 2011}}
* {{GNIS|1403670|Icy Cape}}

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[[Category:Headlands of Alaska]]
[[Category:Landforms of North Slope Borough, Alaska]]


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