Kuugaaluk

Kuugaaluk is an Iñupiaq name for the Kiwalik River, which rises on Alaska's Seward Peninsula and flows north toward Kotzebue Sound. Its lower course crosses a wide lowland before reaching a lagoon and the shallow waters of Spafarief Bay. Tributary streams descend between ridges into the river, and stretches of its banks are lined with spruce and willow. The river country forms part of the homeland of Iñupiaq communities around the sound.