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Bluff, also known as Agookauchuk, was a 20th-century mining town in . It was built at the mouth of Daniels Creek on the north shore of Norton Sound on the in the summer of 1900, as a result of the Nome Gold Rush.
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  • Type: Hamlet
  • Description: 20th-century mining town in Alaska
  • Also known as: “Agookauchuk”, “Apookauchuk”, “Bluff City”, and “Bluff, Alaska”

Bluff

Latitude
64.57278° or 64° 34′ 22″ north
Longitude
-163.75417° or 163° 45′ 15″ west
Elevation
52 feet (16 metres)
Open location code
92PRH6FW+48
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150916805
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
5857707
Wiki­data ID
Q19460587
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Irish—“Bluff” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Bluff”
  • Irish: “Bluff”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bluff”. Photo: Beverly Bennett Dobbs, No restrictions.