Sisualik, Alaska

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Sisualik
Unincorporated community
Sisualik is located in Alaska
Sisualik
Sisualik
Location within the state of Alaska
Coordinates: 66°59′39″N 162°49′41″W / 66.99417°N 162.82806°W / 66.99417; -162.82806Coordinates: 66°59′39″N 162°49′41″W / 66.99417°N 162.82806°W / 66.99417; -162.82806
CountryUnited States
StateAlaska
BoroughNorthwest Arctic
Time zoneUTC-9 (Alaska (AKST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-8 (AKDT)
GNIS feature ID1413968[1]

Sisualik (from Iñupiaq, meaning "place that has beluga whales" from sisuaq "beluga whale"[2]) is a former Inuit village and summer camp in the Northwest Arctic Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located by the Chukchi Sea shore on the , 14 mi. northwest of Kotzebue.[1]

The name of this village was recorded as "Sesualik" by Captain Frederick William Beechey in 1831. In the 1880 Census conducted by Ivan Petroff Sheshalik was listed as "Sheshalegamute" with a population of 100. Captain (1881, p. 44) published the name as "She-shore-lik," and U.S. Navy lieutenant , in his manuscript map dated 1883, wrote it as "She-sur-are-lick." Maximum elevation 3 m.

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Sheshalik, Alaska". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. ^ William Bright, Native American Placenames of the United States
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