ExxonMobil in Alaska: How Prudhoe Bay was named - April 03, 2011

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industryApril 2011

Vol. 16, No. 14

Week of April 03, 2011

ExxonMobil in Alaska: How Prudhoe Bay was named

The first mention of the name “Prudhoe Bay” was a brief entry in the journal of British explorer Sir John Franklin, dated Aug. 16, 1826. Franklin saw the bay during an expedition by boat down the Mackenzie River in Canada (the river flows from south to north) and then west along the Arctic coast.

The name honors a fellow naval officer and explorer-scientist, Captain Algernon Percy, Baron of Prudhoe.

The word “prudhoe” itself is a Saxon term meaning “proud height,” and a Prudhoe castle was built in the 12th century on a hill overlooking the river Tyne in Northumberland, England.

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