Information About

Don River

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Don River on The Map

Location

65 ° 22' 13.001" N,
166 ° 53' 3.998" W

Region

Nome (CA)

Nearest City

Brevig Mission

Don River in Detail.

About

flows SW to Breving Lagoon, 17 mi. NW of Teller, Seward Peninsula High. 19 miles long.

History

Prospectors' name reported in 1901 by T. G. Gerdine (in Collier, 1902, pl. 12)8 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Shown as "Don Albert River" on the 1900 "Map of Nome Peninsula" by J. M. Davidson and B. D. Blakeslee and as "Linden River" on a map of Cape Nome goldfields by David Fox, Jr., dated 1901.