The Kuzitrin River is a river

River

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 found on the Seward Peninsula

Seward Peninsula

The Seward Peninsula is a large peninsula on the western coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. It projects about into the Bering Sea between Norton Sound, the Bering Strait, the Chukchi Sea, and Kotzebue Sound, just below the Arctic Circle...

 of Northwest Alaska

Alaska

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. The river headwaters are at the Lost Jim Lava Flow

Lost Jim Lava Flow

The Lost Jim Lava Flow, located in the heart of the Seward Peninsula, is a Holocene lava flow in the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve. The name originates from a member of a USGS research team who became separated from the rest of the group while mapping the lava flow in 1947. The Lost Jim...

 in the central region of the peninsula, and flows 95 miles west into the Imuruk Basin

Imuruk Basin

The Imuruk Basin is a large interior body of water on western Alaska's Seward Peninsula. The drainage for this brackish saltwater lagoon covers about one quarter of the peninsula. The Kuzitrin, Pilgrim, Cobblestone and Agiapuk rivers empty into the Imuruk Basin...

, which eventually feeds the Bering Sea

Bering Sea

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. Kuzitrin tribuatries include the Noxapaga, Kougarok and Pilgrim Rivers.

Its Inuit

Inuit

The Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada , Denmark , Russia and the United States . Inuit means “the people” in the Inuktitut language...

 name was reported in 1900 by Brooks (1901, pl. 3), USGS.

There is one former village site on the lower Kuzitrin, at what is today called Mary's Igloo

Mary's Igloo, Alaska

Mary's Igloo is an abandoned village located in Nome Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska.- Geography :Mary's Igloo is located at .Mary's Igloo is located on the northwest bank of the Kuzitrin River, on the Seward Peninsula...

. The village is now abandoned, but is still used for subsistence activities by people from the nearby village of Teller

Teller

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