Kukpuk River
The Kukpuk River (Iñupiaq: Kuukpak) is a stream, about 125 miles (201 km) long, in the western North Slope Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. It flows generally west from the De Long Mountains across the Lisburne Peninsula to Marryat Inlet on the Chukchi Sea. The river mouth is about 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Point Hope.
The Inuit name "Kuukpak" means "big river". A late 19th-century variant was "Kookpuk".
See also
References
- ^ "Kukpuk River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. March 31, 1981. Retrieved September 12, 2013.
- ^ Derived by entering source coordinates in Google Earth.
- ^ Orth, Donald J.; United States Geological Survey (1971) [1967]. Dictionary of Alaska Place Names: Geological Survey Professional Paper 567 (PDF). United States Government Printing Office. p. 550. Retrieved September 12, 2013.
- ^ Alaska Atlas & Gazetteer (7th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 2010. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-89933-289-5.
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