Kiwalik River

The Kiwalik River is a river found on western Alaska's Seward Peninsula. [USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1413353 Kiwalik River.] Accessed Aug 20, 2007.] The headwaters of the river originate in the eastern portion of the peninsula, around Granite Mountain. The river flows north to its mouth at Kiwalik Lagoon, Chukchi Sea. The turn of the century mining town of Candle is found on its western bank at the confluence of Candle Creek.

Inuit name published by the British Admiralty about 1880 on Chart 593, spelled "Kee-wa-lik."

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ee also

*List of Alaska rivers