Information About

Pilgrim River

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Pilgrim River on The Map

Location

65 ° 9' 20.999" N,
165 ° 13' 21" W

Region

Nome (CA)

Nearest City

Nome

Elevation

20 ft (6.1 m)

Pilgrim River in Detail.

About

Heads in Salmon Lake, SE of Kigluaik Mts., flows NNE for 25 mi, then W, to the Kuzitrin River, 5.5 mi SSE of Lake Omiaktalik and 34 mi ESE of Teller, Seward Peninsula High.

History

Prospectors' name shown on a precinct map of Seward Peninsula gold fields by Monroe and Hutchins, corrected up to June 1903 by Arthur Gibson. The Eskimo name "Kruzgamepa" was reported in 1900 by E. C. Barnard (in Brooks, 1901, pl. 17), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).