Sinjik

Sinjik stands on a point between Golovnin Bay and Golovnin Lagoon, on the southern shore of the Seward Peninsula. The place is also known as Cingik in Central Yup’ik, a word associated with a point or tip. Its position gives access to the sheltered lagoon and to the Fish River system leading inland. Iñupiat and Yup’ik communities have long maintained ties in this part of Norton Sound, where travel by water links the coast with fishing places and settlements upriver.