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Tsivat River

Tsivat River

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  • Valdez-Cordova (CA)
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heads at terminus of Bering Glacier, flows E and #sw to Gulf of Alaska, 9 mi. W of mouth of Kaliakh River and 97 mi. SE of Cordova, Malaspina Coastal Plain

History of Tsivat River

Indian name transcribed into Russian by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 7), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN) as "R(eka) Tsivot" or "Tsivor River." G. C. Martin, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), recorded the name in 1904 as "Tsi-u."