Unalakleet River

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Unalakleet River
Boat on Unalakleet River.jpg
Data
Water code US :  1411519
location Alaska (USA)
River system Unalakleet River
source Kaltag Mountains in the Nulato Hills
64 ° 20 ′ 27 ″  N , 159 ° 12 ′ 12 ″  W
Source height approx.  600  m
muzzle Norton Sound ( Bering Sea ) coordinates: 63 ° 52 ′ 10 "  N , 160 ° 47 ′ 16"  W 63 ° 52 ′ 10 "  N , 160 ° 47 ′ 16"  W
Mouth height 0  m
Height difference approx. 600 m
Bottom slope approx. 3.6 ‰
length 165 km
Catchment area approx. 5375 km²
Discharge at the gauge above Chiroskey River ( ⊙ ) A Eo : 2719 km² Location: 45 km above the mouth

 MQ 2000/2007
Mq 2000/2007
 		43 m³ / s
15.8 l / (s km²)
Left tributaries Tenmile River , Old Woman River , Chiroskey River , South River
Right tributaries North Fork Unalakleet River , North River
Communities Unalakleet
National Wild and Scenic River
Mouth of the Unalakleet River at Unalakleet

Mouth of the Unalakleet River at Unalakleet

The Unalakleet River is a 165 km long tributary of the Bering Sea in western Alaska .

It rises west of Kaltag in the Kaltag Mountains , a mountain range of the Nulato Hills , and flows southwest to the confluence with Norton Sound at Unalakleet . The valley of the river, the Kaltag Portage , is a passage through the coastal mountains, which was also used in 1925 for the dog sled relay to Nome caused by a diphtheria epidemic .

The North River joins the river 6 km east of Unalakleet from the north.

The name "Unalakleet" has its origin in the name of the native inhabitants for the river, which was recorded as "R (eka) Unalaklik" in 1842-44 and "Unalaklit" was written on a Russian map in 1852.

The first 130 km of the Unalakleet River to the confluence of the Chiroskey River were designated by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act in 1980 as a National Wild and Scenic River under the administration of the Bureau of Land Management .

Fish fauna

The Unalakleet River is the habitat of several migratory fish species . These include dolly varden trout , king salmon , silver salmon , ketal salmon and pink salmon . There are also freshwater fish such as Arctic grayling and members of the Coregonus genus ("whitefish").

Web links

Commons : Unalakleet River  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Bureau of Land Management (PDF) ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.blm.gov
  2. ↑ USGS 15565700 UNALAKLEET R AB CHIROSKEY R NR UNALAKLEET AK
  3. ↑ WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS WITHIN NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SYSTEM ADDITIONS ( Memento from March 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ National Wild & Scenic Rivers - Unalakleet River ( Memento from May 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ A b Northwest Drainages Management Area . Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game. Retrieved December 10, 2017.