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City DescriptionAleknagik (uh-LECK-nuh-gik) (Alaqnaqiq in Central Yup'ik) is a second class city in the Dillingham Census Area of the Unorganized Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. The population was 221 at the 2000 census.
Aleknagik is located at 59°16′42″N 158°37′23″W / 59.27833°N 158.62306°W / 59.27833; -158.62306 (59.278362, -158.622928) (Sec. 31, T010S, R055W, Seward Meridian). Aleknagik is located in the Bristol Bay Recording District.
Aleknagik is located at the head of Wood River on the southeast end of Lake Aleknagik, 16 miles northwest of Dillingham. Aleknagik is named after Aleknagik Lake. One bit of lore would have people believe that Aleknagik means "wrong way home" in Yupik. According to an undocumented, biased source with a lot to gain from the potential lack of traditional land claim to the area, "Yupiks returning to their homes along the Nushagak River would sometimes become lost in the fog and find themselves swept up the Wood River to Aleknagik Lake by the tide." This unsubstantiated claim does not seem to take into account the fact that the tidal influence of the Nushugak Bay on the Wood River does not in fact have enough strength to propel an unwilling adult paddler up ... Read MoreCity Contained By:- United States of America
- Alaska
- Dillingham Census Area
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