Information About

Dogfish Village

Quick Facts

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Location

61 ° 54' 13" N,
161 ° 4' 12" W

Region

Wade Hampton (CA)

Nearest City

Russian Mission

Elevation

154 ft (46.94 m)

Dogfish Village in Detail.

About

on N bank of Yukon River, 11.5 mi. NE of Russian Mission, Yukon- Kuskokwim Delta.

History

This name is a form of a translation of the Eskimo name reported in Russian by Lieutenant L. A. Zagoskin, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), in 1842-44, as "Ikaligvigmyut" meaning "fish village people." R. H. Sargent, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), shows Dogfish Village on a 1916 field sheet. This place is probably a fishing camp, now consisting o f about 3 cabins. Most of the inhabitants died of influenza in 1900 (Hrdlicka, 1943, p. 63).