Bonanza River

Bonanza River (alternates, Ki-ul-uk, Bonanza California, Bonanza Cal) (Inupiaq: Kiwaliq) is a waterway on the Seward Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska. The headwaters lie close to Venetia Creek and the Koksuktapaga River.^[1] It flows southeast for 25 miles (40 km) before reaching Safety Sound, as do the Flambeau and Eldorado Rivers,^[2] and then through Safety Inlet to Norton Sound. The village of Solomon is approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) away.^[3] Across the divide of West Creek, in the Bonanza River drainage, and lying above the West Creek schists, is a series of green chloride schists and sills of greenstone; these chloritic schists are the prevailing rocks of the divide between Eldorado and Bonanza rivers. In its general character, it is similar to the Eldorado River.^[1] Also called Bonanza Cal, later maps indicate California Creek to be a principal tributary of Bonanza River. According to Alfred Hulse Brooks, the Eskimo name is Ki-ul-uk.^[4]