{{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox river | name = Wulik River | name_native = | name_native_lang = | name_other = | name_etymology = <!---------------------- IMAGE & MAP --> | image = | 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 Wulik 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, Northwest Arctic | subdivision_type5 = | subdivision_name5 = <!---------------------- PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS --> | length = {{convert|80|mi|km|abbr=on}}<ref name="gnis"/> | 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 = {{convert|5|mi|km|0}} north of Sheep Mountain, North Slope | source1_coordinates= {{coord|68|22|43|N|162|51|45|W|display=inline}}<ref name="gnis"/> | source1_elevation = {{convert|2563|ft|abbr=on}}<ref>Derived by entering source coordinates in Google Earth.</ref> | mouth = Kivalina Lagoon, Chukchi Sea | mouth_location = East of Kivalina, Northwest Arctic | mouth_coordinates = {{coord|67|43|54|N|164|31|01|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|1419495}} | title = Wulik River| accessdate = September 15, 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 '''Wulik River''' (Iñupiaq: ''Ualliik kuuŋak'') is a stream, about {{convert|80|mi|km}} long, in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Alaska.<ref name="gnis"/> Originating in the De Long Mountains in the North Slope Borough, it flows southwest to Kivalina Lagoon in the Chukchi Sea, east of Kivalina.<ref name="gnis"/> It heads in the De Long Mountains, which is 5 miles (8 km) north of Sheep Mountain, and it is 42 miles (67 km) northwest of Noatak.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wulik River – streams |url=https://www.alaskahandbook.com/places/wulik-river/ |access-date=2022-04-02 |website=Alaska Handbook |language=en-US}}</ref>
Umiak Bend, along the river and {{convert|8|mi|km|0}} northwest of Kivalina, was named after an Inuit skin boat (''umiak'') was destroyed there by rough water.<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|department=United States Government Printing Office|publisher=University of Alaska Fairbanks|year=1971|orig-year=1967|page=1007|accessdate=September 12, 2013}}</ref>
In 1886, a United States Navy lieutenant reported the Inuit name of this river as "Woleek."<ref name="gnis"/>
==See also== *List of rivers of Alaska
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==External links== *{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110708165227/http://www.clocations.com/cviewmap.aspx?list=caty&state=AK&caty=Bend&lid=30151 Umiak Bend]}}
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Category:Rivers of Alaska Category:Rivers of North Slope Borough, Alaska Category:Rivers of Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska Category:Drainage basins of the Chukchi Sea Category:Watersheds of Alaska
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