Selawik River
The Selawik River is a stream, 140 miles long, in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Alaska. Originating in the Purcell Mountains near the Zane Hills, it flows generally west through the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge to Selawik Lake, which empties into the Kotzebue Sound in the Chukchi Sea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: stream in Alaska
- Also known as: “Sal-a-wik River”, “Salawik River”, “Selawick River”, and “Siilviim Kuuna”
Selawik River
- Category: body of water
- Location: Northwest Arctic, Alaska, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Selawik River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Selawik”
- Catalan: “riu Selawik”
- Catalan: “Riu Selawik”
- Cebuano: “Selawik River”
- Czech: “Selawik”
- Dutch: “Selawik River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر سلاويك”
- French: “Selawik”
- German: “Selawik River”
- Irish: “Abhainn Selawik”
- Lithuanian: “Selavikas”
- Portuguese: “Rio Selawik”
- Russian: “Селавик”
- Venetian: “Selawik”
- Welsh: “Afon Selawik”
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