Kotzebue Sound
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 Kotzebue Sound near the town of Kotzebue |
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| Waters | Chukchi Sea | |
| Land mass | North America | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 33 ′ N , 162 ° 56 ′ W | |
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| width | 113 km | |
| depth | 161 km | |
| Islands | Chamisso Island , Puffin Island | |
| Tributaries | Kobuk River , Noatak River , Buckland River | |
 Map of the Kotzebuesund |
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The Kotzebue Sound ( English Kotzebue Sound ) is an arm of the Chukchi Sea , which protrudes north of the Bering Strait into the land mass of Alaska and into which several rivers rich in fish flow.
location
The sound lies north of the Seward Peninsula and is bounded to the east by the Baldwin Peninsula . It is 161 km long and up to 113 km wide. The approximately 65 km wide entrance to Kotzebue Sound is bounded in the north by Cape Krusenstern on the Lisburne Peninsula and in the south by Cape Espenberg in the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve . This lies almost exactly on the polar circle that divides the sound in the middle.
The Kobuk River and the water of Selawik Lake flow into the sound via the Hotham Inlet . In addition, in the north the Noatak and in the south over the Eschscholtz Bay the Buckland River flow into the sound.
Under the sand layer of the coast, which only rises to a height of about 100 m in some places, blue clay is stored, which harbors large amounts of fossil mammoth and mastodon remains.
Surname
The sound is named after the German Baltic seafarer and explorer Otto von Kotzebue , who discovered it on August 1, 1816 while looking for the Northwest Passage and gave it his name. Many landmarks in the Sund are named after other participants in this Russian expedition , for example Chamisso Island , which bears the name of the naturalist and poet Adelbert von Chamisso , and the Eschscholtz Bay, which was named after the naturalist and ship's doctor Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz .
colonization
At the northern end of the Baldwin Peninsula is the town of Kotzebue . The northern coast of the sound is almost unpopulated and includes the Cape Krusenstern National Monument .
On the southern coast are the small towns of Deering and across from Chamisso Island, Kiwalik .
literature
- Otto von Kotzebue : journey of discovery into the South Seas and after the Bering Strait to explore a north-eastern passage in the years 1815 to 1818 . 3 vols. Weimar (1821)
