Information About

Fake Creek

Fake Creek

Quick Facts
Region:
  • North Slope
Nearest City:
Elevation:
  • 2923 ft (890.93 m)
About

heads in a glacier, W of Alapah Mtn., flows NW then SW 5 mi., joins Graylime Creek to form Anaktuvuk River.

History of Fake Creek

Named by Marshall (1956, p. 123) in 1938. About it he wrote, We pushed on across a high ridge to the place where all of us except Jesse Allen thought the main Anaktuvuk lay * * *. He was right, the creek proved to be nothing but a false alarm-so we called it Fake Creek, and climbed over another ridge."