Alaska Gazetteer
Kukpowruk River is a physical feature (stream) in North Slope Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Kukpowruk River |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Stream |
| Description: | heads in De Long Mts. at 682600N1623000W flows N to Kasegaluk Lagoon, 9 mi. S of Point Lay, Arctic Plain. |
| History: | "Eskimo name listed in 11th U. S. Census of 1890 (p. 133). ""At Point Lay a river called Kukpowrukuk enters the largest of these sheets of water (Kasegaluk Lagoon)."" The name probably means ""fairly large stream (Kukpauraq)"" or ""a stream (Kugauraq)."" The name's earliest published use appears to be in John W. Kellt's ""Eskimo Vocabulary,"" 1885=89, where it is listed as ""Kook Pow ruk.""" |
| Borough: | North Slope Borough |
| Latitude: | 69.6158370972 |
| Longitude: | -163.018325806 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Kukpowruk River: Kukpowruk River.
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