Kivalina River

Kivalina River

The Kivalina River is a 60 mile long river in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Alaska, located at coord|67|43|N|164|29|W|. It begins in the De Long Mountains and flows southwest 96 km (60 miles) to Kivalina Lagoon in the Chukchi Sea. [USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1418801 Kivalina River.] Accessed Aug 20, 2007.]

The village of Kivalina is located on a reef at the mouth of the river.

Its Inuit name was spelled "Kuveleek" by Lt. G. M. Stoney (1900, map), USN, in 1885. Present spelling adopted in 1904.

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