] Geography Kotzebue is located at 66°53′50″N 162°35′8″W ﻿ / ﻿ 66.89722°N 162.58556°W ﻿ / 66.89722; -162.58556 (66.897192, −162.585444). [3] Kotzebue lies on a gravel spit at the end of the Baldwin Peninsula in the Kotzebue Sound . It is 33 miles (53 km) north of the Arctic Circle on Alaska's western