Description
Ugashik River is located heads in Upper Ugashik Lake and flows W, through Lower Ugashik Lake, to Ugashik Bay, on NW coast of Alaska Peninsula, 9 mi. SW of Ugashik, Bristol Bay Low.
History
Eskimo name transcribed in French as "Ougatchik Riviere," in 1828 by Captain Lutke (1836, p. 259), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN). At the same time Captain M. N. Staniukovich of the corvette Moller, called it "Soulima" in his journal, and for many years there was considerable confusion concerning the name of the stream or streams. According to Grewingk (1850, p. 129) there were two streams. The present spelling was given by W. H. Dall in 1868.