heads at 694000N1564100W, flows NE and NW to Meade River, 3 mi. N of village of Meade River, Arctic Plain
Lieutenant Ray (1885, p. 27), USA, Wrote March 29, 1883, "a large stream called Usuuktu comes in from the eastward with a channel about forty yards wide and high, bold banks." Lieutenant Ray spells it "Esuktu" on his map. It has been reported that this Eskimo name refers in meaning to a penis.