Kotzebue

Kotzebue, city, northwestern Alaska, U.S. Lying 550 miles (885 km) northwest of Anchorage, it is situated at the northwestern end of Baldwin Peninsula, on Kotzebue Sound. The area, which was a trading centre for a number of widely scattered Arctic villages, has long been inhabited by Inupiat Eskimos. The sound was named for the Russian explorer Otto von Kotzebue, who searched for the Northwest Passage in 1815–18. Established as a reindeer station in 1897, the...