Cape Krusenstern
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
(U.S. National Historic Landmark)
(U.S. National Monument)
Cape Krusenstern
Location:	Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, USA
Nearest city:	Kotzebue, AK
Coordinates:	67°24′48″N 163°30′01″W / 67.41333, -163.50028
Area:	649,085 acres (2,626 km²)
Added to NRHP:	November 07, 1973[1]
Designated as NHL:	November 07, 1973[2]
Established as NMON:	December 1, 1978
NRHP Reference#:	73000378
Governing body:	National Park Service

Cape Krusenstern National Monument and the colocated Cape Krusenstern Archeological District is a U.S. National Monument and a National Historic Landmark^[3] centered on Cape Krusenstern in northwestern Alaska.

Founded on December 1, 1978, it is made up mainly of a coastal plain, containing large lagoons and rolling hills of limestone. The bluffs record thousands of years of change in the shorelines of the Chukchi Sea, as well as evidence of some 9,000 years of human habitation.

The archeological district comprises 114 ancient beach ridges which formed approximately 60 years apart. They provide a rare sequential look at over 5000 years of inhabitation.^[2]

The area in the National Historic Landmark District is vast, making this one of the very largest NHLs in the U.S., along with the Adirondack Park.^[4]

References

External links

• NPS web page on the site

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