Alaska Gazetteer
Kavaksurak Mountain is a physical feature (summit) in North Slope Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Kavaksurak Mountain |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Summit |
| Description: | in Brooks Range, on W side of Howard Pass |
| History: | "Named by Orth in 1956 for field reference reasons. It is the Eskimo name for Howard Pass obtained at Noatak the same year and reported to mean ""a little red,"" by also may mean ""becaomes red"" (qavioqsirok), referring to the turning red of the vegetation in late summer and early fall." |
| Borough: | North Slope Borough |
| Latitude: | 68.3188171387 |
| Longitude: | -157.035797119 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Kavaksurak Mountain: Kavaksurak Mountain.
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