Kateel River

Kateel River in Detail.

flows NE then SE to Koyukuk River, 31 mi. SW of Roundabout Mtn., Koyukuk Low

Koyukuk Indian name published in 1942-44 by Lieutenant L. A. Zagoskin, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as "Khotylkakat" or "mouth of the Khotyl;" applied to a camp or a village at the stream's mouth. Zagoskin, however, shows the name "R(eka) Notylno" or "Notilno River" which he applied to the stream proper. Lieutenant Allen (1887, p. 105-106), USA, recorded the name as "Koteelkakat" in 1885. Allen wrote "below the junction (of the Kateel and Koyukuk) is the site of the station established shortly after the transfer of the Territory * * *. This is the highest point reached on the Koyukuk by Lieutenant Zagoskin, of the Russian Navy, in the winter of 1842, though he ascended the Koteelkakat to latitude 6535."