Imuruk Basin

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Imuruk Basin
The Imuruk Basin with the Kigluiak Mountains in the background

The Imuruk Basin with the Kigluiak Mountains in the background

Waters Bering Sea
Land mass Seward Peninsula ( North America )
Geographical location 65 ° 7 ′  N , 165 ° 42 ′  W Coordinates: 65 ° 7 ′  N , 165 ° 42 ′  W
Imuruk Basin (Alaska)
Imuruk Basin
width 8.3 km
depth 30 km
surface 224 km²
Tributaries Kuzitrin River , Cobblestone River , Agiapuk River

The Imuruk Basin is an inland bay to the west of the Seward Peninsula in Alaska . The catchment area of the saltwater lagoon , fed by the Kuzitrin , Cobblestone and Agiapuk rivers, covers about a quarter of the area of ​​the peninsula.

The outflow of the basin, the 11 km long Tuksuk Channel , runs in a north-westerly direction into Grantley Harbor , which is connected to another bay, Port Clarence , via a spit near the village of Teller . This flows into the Bering Sea near the village of the same name .

South of the basin are the Kigluaik Mountains with Mount Osborn, who with 1437  m highest point in the Seward Peninsula.

Alaskan natives from the interior of the peninsula used the Imuruk Basin as a waterway to the Bering Sea.

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