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Country
  
United States

Time zone
  
Alaska (AKST) (UTC-9)

Local time
  
Saturday 2:01 AM

State
  
Alaska

GNIS feature ID
  
1413968

Sheshalik, Alaska

Weather
  
-21°C, Wind SW at 8 km/h, 86% Humidity

Borough
  
Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska

Sheshalik (Sisualik in Iñupiaq, means "one that has beluga whales" from sisuaq "beluga whale") is a former Inuit village and summer camp in the Northwest Arctic Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located by the Chukchi Sea shore on the Sheshalik Spit, 14 mi. northwest of Kotzebue.

Map of Sheshalik, AK 99752, USA

The name of this village was recorded as "Sesualik" by Captain Frederick William Beechey in 1831. In the 1880 Census conducted by Ivan Petroff Sheshalik was listed as "Sheshalegamute" with a population of 100. Captain Calvin L. Hooper (1881, p. 44) published the name as "She-shore-lik," and U.S. Navy lieutenant George M. Stoney, in his manuscript map dated 1883, wrote it as "She-sur-are-lick." Maximum elevation 3 m.

References

Sheshalik, Alaska Wikipedia