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Baird Inlet
Baird Inlet
(
Nanvaruk
in
Yup'ik
, literally: ‘big lake’) is a 35-mile-long (56 km)
bay
in the
Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta
in the
U.S. state
of
Alaska
. It borders
Nelson Island
and is drained primarily by the
Ninglick
and Kolavinarak Rivers.
Ivan Petrof
named the inlet for
Spencer Fullerton Baird
in 1880. The Eskimo name is "Nunavarok" according to a 1949
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
report.
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