Selawik River

Selawik River

The Selawik River is a river in northwestern Alaska. [USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1413933 Selawik River.] Accessed Aug 20, 2007.] It is about convert|140|mi|km|0|lk=on long. It runs from its origin in the Purcell Mountains through the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge and empties into Selawik Lake, which empties into the Kotzebue Sound in the Chukchi Sea. The river is approximately at the latitude of the Arctic Circle.

The village of Selawik is on the river. The river is used for subsistence fishing by residents and for rafting and sport fishing by tourists.

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