But it was time to catch our plane to Kotzebue.
Kotzebue gets its name from the Kotzebue Sound of the Bering Sea off the northwest coast of Akaska. The sound was named after Otto von Kotzebue, a Baltic German who explored the sound while searching for the Northwest Passage in the service of Russia in 1818.
Kotzebue is also known as Qikiqtaġruk, which means "small island" or "resembles an island" in Iñupiaq. Owing to its location and relative size, Kotzebue served as a trading and gathering center for the various communities in the region. The Noatak, Selawik and Kobuk Rivers drain into the Kotzebue Sound near Kotzebue to form a center for transportation to points inland. In addition to people from interior villages, inhabitants of far-eastern Asia, now the Russian Far East, came to trade furs, seal-oil, hides, rifles, ammunition, and seal skins in Kotzebue. With the arrival of the whalers, traders, gold seekers, and missionaries the trading center expanded.
We arrived in Kotzebue late in the afternoon.
Kotzebue like Nome has an extensive waterfront. This wooden frame will be covered with animal hides for summer fishing.
Alaskan bush villages have a similar look.
There are areas of houses surrounded by large fields.
And interspersed are some interesting businesses.
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