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Kotzebue (/ ˈ k ɒ t s ə b j uː / KOTS-ə-bew) or Qikiqtaġruk (/ k ɪ k ɪ k ˈ t ʌ ɡ r ʊ k / kik-ik-TUG-rook, Inupiaq: [qekeqtɑʁʐuk]) is a city in the Northwest Arctic Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.
The Kotzebue Sound, a significant wildlife area, is a prominent water body within the Northwest Arctic Borough. The largest polar bear sighted in history, a male weighing 2,209 pounds (1,002 kg), was sighted at Kotzebue Sound.
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Kotzebue, Alaska; Kotzebue Sound; Kugarak River; List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska; Lost Jim Lava Flow; Mount Igikpak; National Register of Historic Places listings in Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska; Nigu River; Noatak, Alaska; Noorvik, Alaska; Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska; Nugnugaluktuk River; Puffin Island (Alaska) Red Dog ...
Maniilaq Health Center in Kotzebue is the primary health care facility for the residents of the Northwest Arctic Borough and Point Hope. The 80,000 square foot hospital houses facilities to provide primary, emergency, psychiatric, dental, and long-term care, as well as an inpatient wing with 17 beds for recovering patients.
Map of Kotzebue Sound Barrier islands and lagoons at Cape Espenberg. Kotzebue Sound is an arm of the Chukchi Sea in the western region of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is on the north side of the Seward Peninsula and bounded on the east by the Baldwin Peninsula. It is 100 miles (160 km) long and 70 miles (110 km) wide.
Qatnut is still celebrated in modern times in the city of Kotzebue, Alaska every other summer. A short-lived gold rush brought prospectors to the Seward Peninsula and Kotzebue in the 1890s. A few 20th century structures exist in the monument, including an Alaska Road Commission cabin at Anigaaq that has been evaluated for historic significance. [8]
Northwest Arctic Borough School District (NWABSD) is a school district headquartered in Kotzebue, Alaska.. In 1999 the district had 2,100 students in nine communities. Beginning circa 1999 the Anchorage company Education Resources Inc. was scheduled to enter a contract with NWABSD so that an employee of the company would act as the superintendent of the school di