Information About

Fake Creek

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Fake Creek on The Map

Location

68 ° 7' 0.001" N,
151 ° 5' 30.001" W

Region

North Slope

Nearest City

Anaktuvuk Pass

Elevation

2923 ft (890.93 m)

Fake Creek in Detail.

About

heads in a glacier, W of Alapah Mtn., flows NW then SW 5 mi., joins Graylime Creek to form Anaktuvuk River.

History

Named by Marshall (1956, p. 123) in 1938. About it he wrote, We pushed on across a high ridge to the place where all of us except Jesse Allen thought the main Anaktuvuk lay * * *. He was right, the creek proved to be nothing but a false alarm-so we called it Fake Creek, and climbed over another ridge."