Description
Kokolik River is located heads in De Long Mts. at 682800N, 1615800W, flows NW to Kasegaluk Lagoon, 1 mi. E of Point Lay, Arctic Plain.
History
Eskimo name reported by Lieutenant D. H. Jarvis, U.S. Revenue-Cutter Service (USRCS), in 1898. A. J. Collier, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), reported the name "Kepizetka", probably obtained from the so-called Cullinghow's map of Cape Lisburne, a manuscript map drawn by an Eskimo about 1890. Kokolik refers to the bistort, an edible flowering plant that is abundant in the Arctic (Chapman and Sable, 1960, p. 53). Kepizetka (qipigsatqaq) means "it twists" or "crooked."