Kivalina River
Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Infobox river The Kivalina River (Iñupiaq: Kivalliik kuuŋat) is a Template:Convert river in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Alaska, flowing into Kivalina Lagoon in the Northwest Arctic Borough. It begins in the De Long Mountains and flows southwest Template:Convert through Kivalina Lagoon to the Chukchi Sea.<ref>USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). Kivalina River. Accessed August 20, 2007.</ref> Its Inuit name was spelled "Kuveleek" by Lieutenant G. M. Stoney, United States Navy, in 1885, and its present spelling was adopted in 1904.
The village of Kivalina is located on a reef at the mouth of the river.
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