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The Koyuk River is a river on the Seward Peninsula of western Alaska. The river originates in the interior of the peninsula, at the Lost Jim Lava Flow of the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, where it flows southeast towards the mouth of Norton Bay. The native village of Koyuk is located at its mouth. The two major tributaries are the Peace and Salmon Rivers.

Etymology

Its Inuit name was reported by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 2), IRN, as "Kvyguk." The present spelling comes from A. H. Brooks, USGS, in 1900. The Western Union Telegraph Expedition spelled the name "Koikpak," which means "big river."

Geography

Its lower course is a broad estuary affected for many miles by the tide and having little current. The river valley is a region of rather low relief, the adjacent hills being nowhere comparable to those of the Tubutulik River or the head of Fish River. The flat mud- and sand-filled basins are relatively restricted in area. There are several rapids. For a few hundred feet, the gradient of the river bed is very high and the channel filled with big blocks. The river banks are rocky and made up of horizontally bedded lava flows, from which the boulders that filled the channel are broken. The mouths of two or three large tributaries come in from the south and several smaller ones from the north.

References

USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). Koyuk River. Accessed Aug 20, 2007.
Brooks, Alfred Hulse; Collier, Arthur James; Mendenhall, Walter Curran (1901). Geological Survey (U.S.) (ed.). Reconnaissances in the Cape Nome and Norton Bay regions, Alaska, in 1900 (Public domain ed.). Government Printing Office. pp. 191–. Retrieved 23 March 2013. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)