Meade River (Alaska

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Meade River (Alaska : River)
Other forms of name
Cogtua River (Alaska)
Kol-u-gru'a River (Alaska)
Coordinates
-155.9575 -155.9575 70.90333333 70.90333333 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing topical name
Rivers Alaska
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q2412334
Library of congress: sh2005001686
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: Arundale, W. Quliaqtuat Iñupiat nuna[Eskimo letter]iññiñ : the report of the Chipp-Ikpikpuk River and upper Meade River oral history project, 1987.
  • GNIS, Mar. 9, 2005(Meade River; 69⁰23ʹN, 158⁰40ʺW; variants, Cogtua River, Kol-u-gru'a River; Meade River also variant name of ppl in North Slope)

Wikipedia description:

The Meade River (Iñupiaq: Kuulugruaq) is a river in the North Slope region of the U.S. state of Alaska, beginning near Kulugra Ridge in the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska and flowing generally north past Atqasuk to Admiralty Bay, where it empties into the southern end of the Dease Inlet on the Beaufort Sea.

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