Kukpuk River

The Kukpuk River is a stream, about 125 miles (201 km) long, in the western North Slope Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska.^[1] It flows generally west from the De Long Mountains across the Lisburne Peninsula to Marryat Inlet on the Chukchi Sea.^[2] The river mouth is about 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Point Hope.^[3]

The Inuit name "Kukpak" means "big river". A late 19th-century variant was "Kookpuk".^[3]

References

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^ Alaska Atlas & Gazetteer (7th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 2010. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-89933-289-5.
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