Kiwalik, Alaska

Kiwalik (sometimes written Keewalik) is an unincorporated community in the Northwest Arctic Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.

The community is now abandoned and dilapidated, filled with rusty hulks, trash and broken down buildings.

The Kiwalik river area is often featured on the National Geographic Channel series Life Below Zero as one of the places the Hailstone family visits for hunting and gathering, thus demonstrating the subsistence skills necessary for life in this landscape and climate.

Kiwalik first reported on the 1880 U.S. Census as an unincorporated Inuit village of "Kugalukmute.

This article about a location in the Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska is a stub.

Kiwalik Spit
Northwest Arctic Borough map