Feather River (Alaska)

River in Alaska, United States

Feather River

Location of the mouth of the Feather River in Alaska

Location
Country| United States
State| Alaska
District| Nome Census Area
Physical characteristics
Source| Seward Peninsula
• location| Kigluaik Mountains
• coordinates| 64°52′52″N 165°54′24″W﻿ / ﻿64.88111°N 165.90667°W﻿ / 64.88111; -165.90667[1]
• elevation| 2,113 ft (644 m)[2]
Mouth| Bering Sea

• location

| 38 miles (61 km) northwest of Nome

• coordinates

| 64°50′20″N 166°23′23″W﻿ / ﻿64.83889°N 166.38972°W﻿ / 64.83889; -166.38972[1]

• elevation

| 0 ft (0 m)[1]
Length| 17 mi (27 km)[1]

Feather River is a stream, 17 miles (27 km) long, on the Seward Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska.[1] Flowing west[1] in the Nome mining district, it debouches a little north of Cape Woolley on the Bering Sea.[3] Its creeks include Livingston, from the east; Thistle and Wills, from the north; and Johnston, from the east.[3]

## See also

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* List of rivers of Alaska

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e f "Feather River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. March 31, 1981. Retrieved September 22, 2013.
2. ^ Derived by entering source coordinates in Google Earth.
3. ^ a b Baker, Marcus (1906). Geographic dictionary of Alaska (Public domain ed.). Government Printing Office. pp. 253, 337, 410, 623, 675–. Retrieved 31 March 2013.

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