{{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox river | name = Kukpuk River | native_name = {{native name|ik|Kuukpak}} | name_other = | name_etymology = <!---------------------- IMAGE & MAP --> | image = | image_caption = | map = | map_size = 300 | map_caption = | pushpin_map = USA Alaska | pushpin_map_size = 300 | pushpin_map_caption= Location of the mouth of the Kukpuk River in Alaska <!---------------------- LOCATION --> | subdivision_type1 = Country | subdivision_name1 = United States | subdivision_type2 = State | subdivision_name2 = Alaska | subdivision_type3 = | subdivision_name3 = | subdivision_type4 = Borough | subdivision_name4 = North Slope | subdivision_type5 = | subdivision_name5 = <!---------------------- PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS --> | length = {{convert|125|mi|km|abbr=on}}<ref name="Place Names">{{cite book|last=Orth|first=Donald J.|author2=United States Geological Survey |title=Dictionary of Alaska Place Names: Geological Survey Professional Paper 567|url=https://dggs.alaska.gov/pubs/id/3920|format=PDF|publisher=United States Government Printing Office|year=1971|orig-date=1967|page=550|access-date=September 12, 2013}}</ref> | width_min = | width_avg = | width_max = | depth_min = | depth_avg = | depth_max = | discharge1_location= | discharge1_min = | discharge1_avg = | discharge1_max = <!---------------------- BASIN FEATURES --> | source1 = De Long Mountains | source1_location = | source1_coordinates= {{coord|68|19|27|N|163|24|54|W|display=inline}}<ref name="gnis"/> | source1_elevation = {{convert|2092|ft|abbr=on}}<ref>Derived by entering source coordinates in Google Earth.</ref> | mouth = East end of Marryat Inlet | mouth_location = {{convert|12|mi|km}} northeast of Point Hope, Chukchi Sea, Arctic Ocean | mouth_coordinates = {{coord|68|24|57|N|166|22|37|W|display=inline,title}}<ref name="gnis">{{cite web | work = Geographic Names Information System| publisher = United States Geological Survey | date = March 31, 1981| url = {{gnis3|1405031}} | title = Kukpuk River| accessdate = September 12, 2013}}</ref> | mouth_elevation = {{convert|0|ft|abbr=on}}<ref name="gnis"/> | progression = | river_system = | basin_size = | tributaries_left = | tributaries_right = | custom_label = | custom_data = | extra = }}

The '''Kukpuk River''' (Iñupiaq: ''Kuukpak'') is a stream, about {{convert|125|mi|km}} long, in the western North Slope Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska.<ref name="Place Names"/> It flows generally west from the De Long Mountains across the Lisburne Peninsula to Marryat Inlet on the Chukchi Sea.<ref name="DeLorme">{{cite book|title=Alaska Atlas & Gazetteer|publisher=DeLorme|location=Yarmouth, Maine|page=134|edition=7th|year=2010|isbn=978-0-89933-289-5}}</ref> The river mouth is about {{convert|12|mi|km}} northeast of Point Hope.<ref name="gnis"/>

The Inuit name "Kuukpak" means "big river". A late 19th-century variant was "Kookpuk".<ref name="gnis"/>

==See also== *List of rivers of Alaska

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Category:Rivers of North Slope Borough, Alaska Category:Rivers of Alaska Category:Drainage basins of the Chukchi Sea

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