Imuruk Basin

65.120056 - 165.7Koordinaten: 65 ° 7 ' N, 165 ° 42 ' W

The Imuruk Basin is a basin in the western part of the Seward Peninsula in Alaska. The catchment area of ​​the rivers fed by Kuzitrin, Pilgrim, Cobblestone and Agiapuk saltwater lagoon has about a quarter of the area of the peninsula.

The outflow of the basin extends in a northwesterly direction into the Bay Grantley Harbour, which is connected via a spit in the village plate with another bay, Port Clarence. This leads in the homonymous resort in the Bering Sea.

To the south of the basin are the Kigluaik Mountains with Mount Osborn. Using 1437 m highest point of the Seward Peninsula

Alaska Natives from the inland of the peninsula used the Imuruk Basin as a water route to the Bering Sea.

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