Nugnugaluktuk River | |
Map Size: | 300 |
Pushpin Map: | USA Alaska |
Pushpin Map Size: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the mouth of the Nugnugaluktuk River in Alaska |
Subdivision Type1: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | United States |
Subdivision Type2: | State |
Subdivision Name2: | Alaska |
Subdivision Type4: | District |
Subdivision Name4: | Nome Census Area, Northwest Arctic Borough |
Length: | 26miles[1] |
Source1: | Seward Peninsula |
Source1 Location: | Nome Census Area |
Source1 Coordinates: | 66.1567°N -164.8078°W |
Source1 Elevation: | 104feet[2] |
Mouth: | Goodhope Bay on Kotzebue Sound of the Chukchi Sea |
Mouth Location: | 37miles northwest of Deering, Northwest Arctic Borough |
Mouth Coordinates: | 66.19°N -164.1069°W[3] |
Mouth Elevation: | 0feet |
The Nugnugaluktuk River is a stream, 26miles long, on the Seward Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska.[3] It flows east from within the Nome Census Area to Goodhope Bay, about 37miles northwest of Deering in the Northwest Arctic Borough.[3] The bay is on Kotzebue Sound of the Chukchi Sea.[3] The entire course of the river lies within the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve.[4]
The river's assigned name comes from the Inuit, as reported in 1903. In 1998, the Inupiat name was recorded as Liglignaqtuugvik.[3]