Alaska Gazetteer
Katakturuk River is a physical feature (stream) in North Slope Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Katakturuk River |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Stream |
| Description: | heads on S slope of Sadlerochit Mts., flows W in valley thence N through mountain passes and 30 mi. NE to Camden Bay, 3 mi. W of Collinson Point and 25 mi. SE of Flaxman I., Arctic Plain |
| History: | "Eskimo name reported by Leffingwell (1919, p. 96) to possibly mean ""a narrow place,"" presumably referring to the canyon it has cut through the range . Orth was told in 1956 that the name means ""many falls."" U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) in 1948 reported another version of the meaning, ""looks open,"" referring to the appearance of the stream from the sea." |
| Borough: | North Slope Borough |
| Latitude: | 69.9758300781 |
| Longitude: | -144.997497559 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Katakturuk River: Katakturuk River.
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