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The Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta is a river delta located where the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers empty into the Bering Sea on the west coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. At approximately 129,500 square kilometers (50,000 sq mi) in size, [ 1 ] it is one of the largest deltas in the world.
The lower river below Aniak is located within the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge. The river receives the Big River from the south approximately 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Medfra. It receives the Swift, Stony, and Holitna rivers from the south at the southern end of the Kuskokwim Mountains before emerging on the coastal plain.
Scottie Creek band — formerly inhabiting the Scottie Creek area (nowadays in Alaska Northway; in Canada Whitehorse, Yukon and Beaver Creek, Yukon, called as White River First Nation). Neighbors: Lower Nabesna band (west), Hän people (north), Ahtna people (south), Northern Tutchone people of Canada (east).
Big River band — which used Big River and the Middle Fork with winter villages at Farewell Landing and the mouth of Big River. nameless band — which ranged around Vinasale Mountain and had close ties with the former Tatlawiksuk and Takotna River bands. The Upper Kuskokwim communities: [5] McGrath was a seasonal Upper Kuskokwim Athabascan ...
KYUK is a National Public Radio and Alaska Public Radio affiliate and PBS member station through the Alaska One Public Television Network. KYUK is located in Bethel, Alaska a town situated on the banks of the Kuskokwim River within the Yukon/Kuskokwim Delta region of southwestern Alaska. KYUK has maintained an archive of their programs and ...
The Yukon River is a major ... long and empties into the Bering Sea at the Yukon–Kuskokwim ... The industrial metal band Lindemann wrote a song named "Yukon" on ...
The Yupʼik at Moravian Mission Station, Bethel on the Kuskokwim River in the year 1900 [89] The Moravian Church is the oldest Protestant denomination in Alaska, and is organized into four provinces in North America: Northern, Southern, Alaska, and Labrador. The Moravian mission was first founded at Bethel, along the Kuskokwim River in 1885. [85]
The Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge is a United States National Wildlife Refuge covering about 19.16 million acres (77,500 km 2) in southwestern Alaska. [2] It is the second-largest National Wildlife Refuge in the country, only slightly smaller than the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge .