Etymology

Norton Sound

Today it means: An inlet of the Bering Sea on the western coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, south of the Seward Peninsula. Full definition →

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The story

Named by Captain James Cook after Sir Fletcher Norton, then Speaker of the British House of Commons.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.