Kongakut River
Kongakut River | |
Kongakut River in summer
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Country | United States |
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State | Alaska |
Borough | North Slope |
Source | |
- location | Davidson Mountains |
- elevation | 5,521 ft (1,683 m) [1] |
- coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [2] |
Mouth | Siku Lagoon |
- location | Beaufort Sea |
- elevation | 0 ft (0 m) [2] |
- coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [2] |
The Kongakut River[pronunciation?] flows through parts of North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.[2] It begins in the Davidson Mountains of the Brooks Range in the northeastern corner of the state, near the border with Yukon Territory in Canada.[3] The Kongakut flows generally northeast and north through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to the Beaufort Sea northwest of Demarcation Point.[3] It was formerly sometimes called the Turner River but that name is now applied to a smaller stream in the vicinity due to confusion as to which was originally meant. The name Kongakut comes from the Inupiaq name for the river, meanining roughly "deer pond".[4]
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References
- ↑ Source elevation derived from Google Earth search using GNIS source coordinates.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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- ↑ Orth, Donald (1967) Dictionary of Alaska Place Names Geological Survey professional paper, Volume 567. USGS. Government Printing Office, Washington. pp 539, 994
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