Bering River is a physical feature (stream) in Chugach Borough.
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Feature Name: | Bering River |
Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
Feature Type: | Physical |
Class: | Stream |
Description: | heads at bering Glacier terminus, flows SW to Controller Bay, 57 mi. ESE of Cordova, Malaspina Coastal Plain. 20 miles long. |
History: | "Local name; reported in 1903 by G. C. Martin, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Named ""Rio de Lagartos"" in July, 1779, by Don Ignacio Arteaga. ""Arteaga, however, did not reach this stream, so the name must have had some other source than any knowledge he had that there were lagartos, 'lizard' in it"", (Wagner, 1937, p. 466). George Davidson, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), called it ""Chilkaht"" in the 1869 Coast Pilot (p. 146), for the Chilkat subdivision of Tlingit Indians." |
Borough: | Chugach Borough |
Latitude: | 60.1663894653 |
Longitude: | -144.249725342 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Bering River: Bering River.
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Katalla, AK (9.5 miles WNW) |