Mary's Igloo, Alaska

Mary's Igloo (Qawiaraq or Aġviġnaq in Iñupiaq) is an abandoned village located in the Nome Census Area of the Unorganized Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska, now used as a fish camp.

A few settled at the site of Mary's Igloo, which they called Aukvaunlook (Aġviġnaq), meaning "black whale.

During that period, Mary's Igloo was a transfer point for supplies for the gold fields upriver on the Kuzitrin and Kougarok rivers.

By the 1910 census, Mary's Igloo was a community of 141 Inupiat and Anglo-Americans, who were miners, innkeepers, missionaries and support crews for the barges.

Mary's Igloo is located at 65°09′N 165°04′W / 65.150°N 165.067°W / 65.150; -165.067.,[2] on the northwest bank of the Kuzitrin River, on the Seward Peninsula.