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Bonanza River (alternates, Ki-ul-uk, Bonanza California, Bonanza Cal) (Inupiaq: Kiwaliq) is a waterway on the Seward Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska. The headwaters lie close to Venetia Creek and the Koksuktapaga River. It flows southeast for 25 miles (40 km) before reaching Safety Sound, as do the Flambeau and Eldorado Rivers, and then through Safety Inlet to Norton Sound. The village of Solomon is approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) away. Across the divide of West Creek, in the Bonanza River drainage, and lying above the West Creek schists, is a series of green chloride schists and sills of greenstone; these chloritic schists are the prevailing rocks of the divide between Eldorado and Bonanza rivers. In its general character, it is similar to the Eldorado River. Also called Bonanza Cal, later maps indicate California Creek to be a principal tributary of Bonanza River. According to Alfred Hulse Brooks, the Eskimo name is Ki-ul-uk.

References

  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: U.S. Geological Survey's "Reconnaissances in the Cape Nome and Norton Bay regions, Alaska, in 1900" (1901)
  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: M. Baker's "Geographic dictionary of Alaska" (1906)
  1. ^ Geological Survey (U.S.); Alfred Hulse Brooks; Arthur James Collier; Walter Curran Mendenhall; George Burr Richardson (1901). Reconnaissances in the Cape Nome and Norton Bay regions, Alaska, in 1900. Govt. Print. Off. pp. 98–. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
  2. Bockstoce, John R. (1979). The archaeology of Cape Nome, Alaska. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology. pp. 9–. ISBN 978-0-934718-27-1. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
  3. Geological Survey Professional Paper. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1967. pp. 152–. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
  4. Baker, Marcus (1906). Geographic dictionary of Alaska (Public domain ed.). Government Printing Office. pp. 143–. Retrieved 30 March 2013.

64°32′N 164°29′W / 64.533°N 164.483°W / 64.533; -164.483


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