- Kokolik River
The Kokolik River is a
river inAlaska 's North Slope flowing into theChukchi Sea . [USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1404902 Kokolik River.] Accessed Aug 20, 2007.]Its
Inuit name was reported by Lt. D. H. Jarvis, USRCS, in 1898. A. J. Collier, USGS, reported the name "Kepizetka", probably obtained from the so-called Cullinghow's map of Cape Lisburne, a manuscript map drawn by an Eskimo about 1890. Kokolik refers to thebistort , an edible flowering plant that is abundant in the Arctic (Chapman and Sable, 1960, p. 53). Kepizetka (qipigsatqaq) means "it twists" or "crooked."Description: The Kokolik River heads in De Long Mts. at 682800N, 1615800W, flows NW to Kasegaluk Lagoon, 1 mi. E of
Point Lay , Arctic Plain.References
ee also
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List of Alaska rivers
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