Alaska Gazetteer
Kokolik River is a physical feature (stream) in North Slope Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Kokolik River |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Stream |
| Description: | heads in De Long Mts. at 682800N, 1615800W, flows NW to Kasegaluk Lagoon, 1 mi. E of Point Lay, Arctic Plain. |
| History: | "Eskimo name reported by Lieutenant D. H. Jarvis, U.S. Revenue-Cutter Service (USRCS), in 1898. A. J. Collier, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), reported the name ""Kepizetka"", probably obtained from the so-called Cullinghow's map of Cape Lisburne, a manuscript map drawn by an Eskimo about 1890. Kokolik refers to the bistort, an edible flowering plant that is abundant in the Arctic (Chapman and Sable, 1960, p. 53). Kepizetka (qipigsatqaq) means ""it twists"" or ""crooked.""" |
| Borough: | North Slope Borough |
| Latitude: | 69.7708358765 |
| Longitude: | -162.996673584 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Kokolik River: Kokolik River.
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