Goodhope River

Goodhope River

The Goodhope River is a 48 mi long river on the Seward Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska. It heads about 5.3 mi WSW of Cloud Lake and flows NE to Goodhope Bay in the Chukchi Sea about 27 mi W of Cape Deceit and Deering, Kotzebue-Kobuk Low. [ [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=108:3:15845223094965297813::NO::P3_FID:1413068 Detail ] ]

Name reported in 1901 by Mendenhall (1902, p. 27), USGS; derived from "Goodhope Bay". Its Inuit name has not been reported.

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