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Kuskokwim

American  
[kuhs-kuh-kwim] / ˈkʌs kəˌkwɪm /

noun

  1. a river in SW Alaska, flowing SW to the Bering Sea. About 724 miles (1,170 km) long.


Kuskokwim British  
/ ˈkʌskəˌkwɪm /

noun

  1. a river in SW Alaska, rising in the Alaska Range and flowing generally southwest to Kuskokwim Bay an inlet of the Bering Sea. Length: about 970 km (600 miles)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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More than 30 Alaska Native villages depend on the Kuskokwim for their subsistence living.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2024

Streubel said conditions were made worse by an ice dam that formed near the mouth of the Kuskokwim River.

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2024

Engram chose sections of eight rivers: the Colville, Noatak, Tanana, Yukon, Kantishna, Innoko, Copper and Kuskokwim, listed here in descending order of latitude.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2024

They say there would be no threat of overfishing or competition between urban and rural residents, partly because rivers like the Yukon and Kuskokwim are so hard to reach from cities like Anchorage.

From Salon • Dec. 28, 2023

Eight miles in two days was certainly very poor travel, and at this rate our supplies would never take us down to the forks of the Kuskokwim.

From Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Stuck, Hudson

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