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The Kokolik River is a stream, 200 miles (320 km) long, in the western North Slope of the U.S. state of Alaska.[1] It rises in the De Long Mountains of the western Brooks Range and flows generally north and northwest into the Kasegaluk Lagoon.[2] The river mouth is 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Point Lay, on the Chukchi Sea of the Arctic Ocean.[2]
Its Inuit name, Kokolik, refers to the alpine bistort, an edible plant found in the region. A variant name, Kepizetka (qipigsatqaq), recorded on an Inuit map in the late 19th century, means "it twists" or "crooked".[2]
In the summer of 1977, a tundra fire, apparently caused by lightning, affected 17 square miles (44 km2) near the Kokolik River due east of Point Lay. Vegetation along the border of the National Petroleum Reserve burned during an exceptionally dry spell in the region. The site was the furthest north the Bureau of Land Management had ever fought a tundra fire.[3]
See also
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gniswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Hall, Dorothy K.; Brown, Jerry; Johnson, Larry (1978). "The 1977 Tundra Fire in the Kokolik River Area of Alaska". Arctic. 31 (1). Arctic Institute of North America: 54–58. doi:10.14430/arctic2639. Retrieved September 8, 2013.
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