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    How did the town of Nome, Alaska get its name?

    Question #121025. Asked by star_gazer. (Apr 08 11 8:20 PM)


    deputygary

    		The version I like to believe is that a cartographer, mapping the coastline of Alaska, noted the cape there as "? Name" because he did not know the name of the place. Perhaps it had no local name. A mapmaker misread his note as "C. Nome" or "Cape Nome".

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nome,_Alaska

    Apr 08 11, 8:35 PM
    author

    		From the same source:

    The name may have been given by Nome's founder, Jafet Lindeberg: within trekking distance of his childhood home in Kvænangen, Norway, there is a Nome valley (Norwegian: Nomedalen).

    Apr 09 11, 2:40 PM

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