Alaska Gazetteer
Turner River is a physical feature (stream) in North Slope Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Turner River |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Stream |
| Description: | flows NW to Demarcation Bay, 4 mi. SW of Demarcation Point, Arctic Plain. |
| History: | This name was originally applied to the Kongakut River in 1894 by Frederick Funston, USA, and honors John Henry Turner, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), who made a sled trip from the Porcupine River to the Arctic Ocean in 1890. The name has since been relegated to this smaller stream because of confusion as t o which stream Funston had named (Leffingwell, 1919, p. 91-92). |
| Borough: | North Slope Borough |
| Latitude: | 69.6419448853 |
| Longitude: | -141.395004272 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Turner River: Turner River.
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| Gordon, AK (5.3 miles ENE) |
