Information About

Pilgrim River

Pilgrim River

Quick Facts
Region:
  • Nome (CA)
Nearest City:
Elevation:
  • 20 ft (6.1 m)
About

Heads in Salmon Lake, SE of Kigluaik Mts., flows NNE for 25 mi, then W, to the Kuzitrin River, 5.5 mi SSE of Lake Omiaktalik and 34 mi ESE of Teller, Seward Peninsula High.

History of Pilgrim River

Prospectors' name shown on a precinct map of Seward Peninsula gold fields by Monroe and Hutchins, corrected up to June 1903 by Arthur Gibson. The Eskimo name "Kruzgamepa" was reported in 1900 by E. C. Barnard (in Brooks, 1901, pl. 17), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).