Kotzebue Sound

Map of Kotzebuesunds

The Kotzebue Sound (English Kotzebue Sound) is an estuary of the Chukchi Sea, which extends north of the Bering Strait in the land mass of Alaska and in the pour several rivers teeming with fish.

Location

The Sound is located north of the Seward Peninsula and east is limited by the Baldwin Peninsula., Is 161 km long and up to 113 km wide. The approximately 65 -km-wide entrance to Kotzebue Sound is bordered to the north by the Cape Krusenstern on the Lisburne Peninsula and in the south by Cape Espen Berg in the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve. This is almost exactly on the Arctic Circle, which divides the sound in the middle.

About the Hotham Inlet opens the Kobuk and the water of Selawiksees in the Sound. In addition, flows in the north of Noatak and to the south across the Eschscholtzbucht the Buckland River in the Sound.

Under the sand layer of the coast, which rises only in some places to about 100 m in height, superimposed blue tone that carries large amounts of fossil mammoth and mastodon remains.

Name

The sound is named after the Baltic German navigator and explorer Otto von Kotzebue, who discovered him on 1 August 1816 in search of the Northwest Passage and gave him his name. Many landmarks in the Sound are named after other participants of this Russian expedition, for example, the Chamisso Island, which is named after the naturalist and poet Adelbert von Chamisso, and the Eschscholtz Bay, which was named after the naturalist and surgeon Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz.

Colonization

At the northern end of the Baldwin Peninsula is the town of the same name Kotzebue. The northern coast of the Sound is almost uninhabited, and includes the National Park Cape Krusenstern National Monument.

Are the small towns of Deering and opposite the Chamisso Island Kiwalik on the southern coast.