Editing Hotham Inlet (section)

[[Image:Kotzebue Sound.png|thumb|right|300px|Map showing Selawik Lake that feeds into the Hotham Inlet and Kotzebue Sound]]
[[Image:AKMap-doton-Kotzebue.PNG|thumb|right|300px|Location of the Hotham Inlet in Alaska]]

'''Hotham Inlet''', also known as '''Kobuk Lake''',{{r|nana}} is an [[Arm (geography)|arm]] of [[Kotzebue Sound]] on the northwestern coast of the [[U.S. state]] of [[Alaska]]. It is 50 miles (80&nbsp;km) long and 5–20 miles (8–32&nbsp;km) wide. The inlet is the outlet of the [[Kobuk River|Kobuk]] and [[Selawik River]]s and it is bounded on the southwest by the [[Baldwin Peninsula]].

This inlet was named in 1826 by [[Royal Navy]] Captain [[Frederick William Beechey]] after Sir Henry Hotham, one of the lords of the [[British Admiralty]].<ref name=Beechey>{{cite book
  | last = Beechey
  | first = Frederick William
  | title = Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait: to co-operate with the Polar expeditions : performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N. ... in the years 1825,26,27,28.
  | publisher = Carey & Lea
  | year = 1832
  | location = Philadelphia
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=7YcBAAAAYAAJ&q=Frederick+Beechey+1826&pg=PA364}}</ref>