Ike's Point | |
Type: | Point |
Map: | New Jersey |
Elevation: | 0m (00feet) |
Ike's Point is a small, swampy point that protrudes into the western side of Jenkins Sound in Cape May County, New Jersey.[1]
Ike's Point is notable for being one of five American federally-recognized place names with a possessive apostrophe. When the name was officialized in 1944, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names allowed the apostrophe as the name "would be unrecognizable otherwise".[2] However, Ikes Point in Acadia National Park, officially named in 1996, is rendered without the apostrophe.[3]