Sheshalik
Northwest Arctic · USGS GNIS name record 1413968
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Original USGS record for Sheshalik ↗Dataset snapshot 2026-09-02 · Source record edited 06/07/2022 · NAD83 · approximate source location
USGS description & history
on Sheshalik Spit, 9 mi. NW of Kotzebue, KotzebueKobuk Low.
Former Eskimo village and summer camp, famous as a trading area for Eskimo and Indian, recorded as "Sesualik," in Captain F. W. Beechey's chart, dated 1831. In the 1880 Census, Petroff (1884, p. 4) listed "Sheshalegamute," population 100. Captain Hooper (1881, p. 44) published "She-shore-lik," and Lieutenant G. M. Stoney's manuscript map, dated 1883, shows "She-sur-are-lick."
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