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Ukshivik

Quick Facts

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Location

57 ° 10' 59.999" N,
153 ° 22' 0.001" W

Region

Kodiak Island

Nearest City

Akhiok

Ukshivik in Detail.

About

on Barling Bay, on SE coast of Kodiak I.

History

Former Eskimo village or camp published as "Ukshivikag-miut" on the Russian American Company's 1849 map. Baker (1906, p. 649) wrote, "Ukshivik means a winter village from Ukshuk (winter), and vik, the locative termination."