Lopp Lagoon

Lopp Lagoon, called Taziq in Inupiaq, is a tidal lake in western Alaska near Cape Prince of Wales at the far end of the Seward Peninsula. Fed by many creeks, especially the Mint River, it also receives salt water from the Pacific through channels toward the Bering Strait. In 1900 it was named for William Thomas Lopp, a missionary among the Inuit and civilian leader of the 1897–98 Overland Relief Expedition. The lagoon has long been important to nearby communities around Wales as a source of food, particularly salmon and waterfowl.

Wales, Alaska · United States