the Northwest Passage in the service of Russia in 1818. Kotzebue is located at 66°53′50″N, 162°35′8″W (66.897192, -162.585444) GR1 . Kotzebue lies on a gravel spit at the end of the Baldwin Peninsula in the Kotzebue Sound . It is 53 km (33 miles) north of the arctic circle on Alaska's