Tubutulik River
| Tubutulik River | ||
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| Water code | US : 1411269 | |
| location | Alaska (USA) | |
| River system | Tubutulik River | |
| Headwaters | in the east of the Bendeleben Mountains 65 ° 15 ′ 45 ″ N , 162 ° 35 ′ 52 ″ W |
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| Source height | approx. 600 m | |
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Nortonsund coordinates: 64 ° 44 ′ 21 " N , 161 ° 53 ′ 21" W 64 ° 44 ′ 21 " N , 161 ° 53 ′ 21" W. |
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| Mouth height | 0 m | |
| Height difference | approx. 600 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 4.8 ‰ | |
| length | 125 km | |
| Left tributaries | Haven Creek | |
| Right tributaries | Granite Creek, Caribou Creek, Rock Creek, Clear Creek | |
The Tubutulik River is a 125 km long tributary of Norton Sound in western Alaska .
The Tubutulik River has its origin in the east of the Bendeleben Mountains in the central east of the Seward Peninsula . It flows in a predominantly south-southeast direction along the eastern flank of the Darby Mountains . In the upper reaches of the Tubutulik River flows through the Death Valley , an approximately 8 km wide and 15 km long basin landscape, which is at an altitude of 150 m . In Death Valley, the Tubutulik River shows a strongly meandering behavior. The rivers Granite Creek , Haven Creek and Caribou Creek flow into it. Later, the Tubutulik River cuts a ridge to the east and then turns south. It reaches the relatively narrow coastal plain, where it again forms numerous narrow river loops and oxbow lakes. Finally, the Tubutulik River flows 22 km northeast of Elim into the Kwiniuk Inlet , a lagoon that opens to the east to Nortonsund.
The Eskimo name of the river was recorded as Tubuktulik by Captain Mikhail Dmitrijewitsch Tebenkow of the Imperial Russian Navy in 1849 .