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The Utukok River is a 180 miles (290 km) long river in the North Slope Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska that flows into the Chukchi Sea.

Rising at 68°34′00″N 161°06′00″W / 68.56667°N 161.10000°W / 68.56667; -161.10000 in the De Long Mountains at the confluence of Kogruk Creek and Tupik Creek and flowing north, northeast, and then northwest, to Kasegaluk Lagoon and the Arctic Ocean, 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Icy Cape, Arctic Plain.

History

"Utoqaq" is the Inuit name for "Icy Cape" and means "old" or "ancient." The name of the river appears to have been first mentioned by Lt. Zagoskin (1847, p. 74), IRN, when he referred to the Utukak-myut, or Utukak people, "on river of same name." Zagoskin received this information from Kashevarov, whose Creole guide, Utuktak, drew a map of the coast south of Point Barrow in 1838. The name was published in 1899 by USC&GS as "Ootokok River."

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Utukok River

See also

70°02′49″N 162°27′26″W / 70.04694°N 162.45722°W / 70.04694; -162.45722


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