Information About

Baituk Creek

Baituk Creek

Quick Facts
Region:
  • Nome (CA)
Nearest City:
Elevation:
  • 46 ft (14.02 m)
About

flows SW to Bering Sea, 10 mi. SE of Cape Prince of Wales and 45 mi. NW of Teller, Seward Peninsula High. 6 miles long.

History of Baituk Creek

Eskimo name published in 1900 as "Botuk" on U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) Chart 9380, and as "Bituk" by Schrader and Brooks (map 3), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Reported the same year as "Baituk" by Brooks (1901, pl. 13 and p. 135), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).