found: Work cat.: Geologic map of the western Kukpowruk-Nuka Rivers region, northwestern Alaska, 1984.
found: GNIS, Sept. 8 2005(Kukpowruk River; stream; North Slope County, Alaska; variance: Kookpowrook River; Koopoowrook River; 69⁰36ʹ56ʺN 163⁰01ʹ05ʺW; history: Eskimo name listed in 11th U. S. Census of 1890) p. 133 ("At Point Lay a river called Kukpowrukuk enters the largest of these sheets of water (Kasegaluk Lagoon)"; the name probably means "fairly large stream (Kukpauraq)" or "a stream (Kugauraq)"; the name's earliest published use appears to be in John W. Kellt's "Eskimo Vocabulary," 1885=89, where it is listed as "Kook Pow ruk")
found: OMNI, 1991(Kookpowruk River; stream; North Slope County, Alaska; 69⁰36ʹ57ʺN 163⁰01ʹ06ʺW)
