Alaska Gazetteer
Fake Creek is a physical feature (stream) in North Slope Borough. The primary coordinates for Fake Creek places it within the 99721 ZIP Code delivery area.
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| Feature Name: | Fake Creek |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Stream |
| Description: | heads in a glacier, W of Alapah Mtn., flows NW then SW 5 mi., joins Graylime Creek to form Anaktuvuk River. |
| History: | "Named by Marshall (1956, p. 123) in 1938. About it he wrote, We pushed on across a high ridge to the place where all of us except Jesse Allen thought the main Anaktuvuk lay * * *. He was right, the creek proved to be nothing but a false alarm-so we called it Fake Creek, and climbed over another ridge.""" |
| Borough: | North Slope Borough |
| Latitude: | 68.1166687012 |
| Longitude: | -151.091659546 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Fake Creek: Fake Creek.
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