Uivvak

Uivvak lies on the Chukchi Sea coast of northwestern Alaska, near a headland known to the Iñupiat as Uivvaq and later as Cape Lisburne. The rocky cape overlooks the spring migration route of bowhead whales, which follow the coast through the sea ice. Around the beginning of the nineteenth century, Uivvaq was an important winter settlement and one of the places where local hunters pursued bowheads in spring. Stone from the headland also provided material for making tools.