Agivavik, Alaska

Agivavik is a former Inuit settlement and ghost town in Dillingham Census Area, Alaska, United States.

It was initially noted by the Nushagak Russian Orthodox Church vital statistics in 1863 and was visited by a missionary.

A Father Vasili Shishkin visited the settlement in 1882 and noted it was "one of only three" occupied villages along the river.

[1] Agivavik would not be mentioned again until noted anthropologist Aleš Hrdlička in his survey of Alaska, visited the site in 1931 and was told by his guide that the village had been abandoned around 1900.

Orth's Dictionary of Alaska Place Names, which was also referenced by the USGS, also was in error in its location, noting it to be along the "right bank of the Ugashik River.

Dillingham Census Area map