Information About

Tsivat River

Quick Facts

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Location

60 ° 3' 40" N,
143 ° 8' 6" W

Region

Valdez-Cordova (CA)

Nearest City

McCarthy

Tributaries

Tsiu River,

Tsivat River in Detail.

About

heads at terminus of Bering Glacier, flows E and #sw to Gulf of Alaska, 9 mi. W of mouth of Kaliakh River and 97 mi. SE of Cordova, Malaspina Coastal Plain

History

Indian name transcribed into Russian by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 7), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN) as "R(eka) Tsivot" or "Tsivor River." G. C. Martin, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), recorded the name in 1904 as "Tsi-u."