Kalskaq

Kalskaq lies on the northern bank of the Kuskokwim River in western Alaska. Before European settlement, Yup'ik people used the area as a seasonal fishing camp known as Kessiglil. A portage route connected the Kuskokwim with the Yukon River farther north; the Russian explorer Vasily Ivanov travelled along it in the 1790s. River channels and overland passages linked communities throughout this broad lowland country.