Pitmegea River
The Pitmegea River is a 42-mile stream in the western North Slope Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. From its source in the De Long Mountains, the river flows generally northwest to the Chukchi Sea at Cape Sabine, about 30 miles east of Cape Lisburne A prospector who explored the river in 1888 reported its Inuit name as Pitmegeak.- Type: River
- Description: river in Alaska, USA
- Also known as: “Pet-meg-ea”, “Petmeg-e’a River”, “Pitmagillik”, and “Pitmigea River”
Pitmegea River
- Categories: stream and body of water
- Location: North Slope, Alaska, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
68.90916° or 68° 54′ 33″ north
Longitude
-164.62453° or 164° 37′ 28″ west
Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)
Open location code
92WQW95G+M5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
OpenStreetMap feature
water=river
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Pitmegea River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Catalan to Welsh—“Pitmegea River” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Pitmegea”
- Cebuano: “Pitmegea River”
- Dutch: “Pitmegea River”
- French: “Pitmegea”
- German: “Pitmegea River”
- Irish: “Abhainn Pitmegea”
- Venetian: “Pitmegea”
- Welsh: “Afon Pitmegea”
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