{{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox river | name = Utukok River | native_name ={{native name|ik|Utuqqaq}} | name_other = | name_etymology = <!---------------------- IMAGE & MAP --> | image = File:Camp along Utukok River.jpg | image_size = 300 | 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 Utukok 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|225|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=http://137.229.113.112/webpubs/usgs/p/text/p0567.pdf|format=PDF<!--|agency=United States Government Printing Office-->|publisher=University of Alaska Fairbanks|year=1971|orig-year=1967|page=1015|access-date=September 8, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017165933/http://137.229.113.112/webpubs/usgs/p/text/p0567.pdf|archive-date=October 17, 2013|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> | width_min = | width_avg = | width_max = | depth_min = | depth_avg = | depth_max = | discharge1_location= | discharge1_min = | discharge1_avg = | discharge1_max = <!---------------------- BASIN FEATURES --> | source1 = Confluence of Kogruk and Tupik creeks | source1_location = De Long Mountains, Brooks Range, National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska | source1_coordinates= {{coord|68|33|26|N|161|06|20|W|display=inline}} | source1_elevation = {{convert|2075|ft|abbr=on}}<ref>Derived by entering source coordinates in Google Earth.</ref> | mouth = Kasegaluk Lagoon, Chukchi Sea, Arctic Ocean | mouth_location = {{convert|20|mi|km}} southwest of Icy Cape | mouth_coordinates = {{coord|70|02|49|N|162|27|26|W|display=inline,title}}<ref name="gnis">{{cite web | work = Geographic Names Information System| publisher = United States Geological Survey | date = January 1, 2000| url = {{gnis3|1411606}} | title = Utukok River| access-date = September 8, 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 '''Utukok River''' (Iñupiaq: ''Utuqqaq'') is a {{convert|225|mi|km|adj=on}} long stream in the North Slope Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska.<ref name="Place Names"/> It rises in the De Long Mountains at the confluence of Kogruk and Tupik creeks and flows north, northeast, and then northwest.<ref name="gnis"/> It empties into Kasegaluk Lagoon on the Chukchi Sea of the Arctic Ocean, {{convert|20|mi|km}} southwest of Icy Cape.<ref name="gnis"/> It is the breeding ground for Arctic caribou and various birds.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Utukok River Uplands {{!}} Alaska Wilderness League|url=https://www.alaskawild.org/places-we-protect/utukok-river-uplands/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=www.alaskawild.org|archive-date=2021-01-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126025854/https://www.alaskawild.org/places-we-protect/utukok-river-uplands/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
''Utuqqaq'', meaning ''old'' or ''ancient'', is the Inuit name for Icy Cape.<ref name="gnis"/> Variant names used for the river in the 19th century included "Utukak" and "Ootokok".<ref name="gnis"/>
==See also== *List of rivers of Alaska *Seismo Creek
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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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