Flambeau River (Alaska)

Flambeau River is a waterway on the Seward Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska. It has a broad, basin-shaped valley,^[1] and terminates as a tributary to Safety Sound. Its name is first recorded by Edward Chester Barnard of the United States Geological Survey (1900).^[2] The nearby gold prospect deposit site, "Flambeau River", is named after the waterway.^[3]

References

This article incorporates text from a work in the public domain: U.S. Geological Survey's "Reconnaissances in the Cape Nome and Norton Bay regions, Alaska, in 1900" (1901)
This article incorporates text from a work in the public domain: M. Baker's "Geographic dictionary of Alaska" (1906)

↑ Geological Survey (U.S.); Brooks, Alfred Hulse; Collier, Arthur James; Walter Curran Mendenhall; George Burr Richardson (1901). Reconnaissances in the Cape Nome and Norton Bay regions, Alaska, in 1900 (Public domain ed.). Government Printing Office. pp. 54–. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
↑ Baker, Marcus (1906). Geographic dictionary of Alaska (Public domain ed.). Government Printing Office. pp. 258–. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
↑ ""Flambeau River" in Nome, AK, Gold Prospect". Retrieved 19 June 2017.

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