Buckland River
For the river in Australia, see Buckland River (Victoria).
| Buckland River | |
| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| State | Alaska |
| Borough | Northwest Arctic |
| Source | Confluence of the river's north and south forks |
| - location | South of the Selawik Hills, Seward Peninsula |
| - elevation | 146 ft (45 m) [1] |
| - coordinates | 65°45′00″N 160°02′23″W / 65.75000°N 160.03972°W [2] |
| Mouth | Eschscholtz Bay on Kotzebue Sound of the Chukchi Sea |
| - location | 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Selawik |
| - elevation | 0 ft (0 m) [2] |
| - coordinates | 66°14′36″N 161°02′39″W / 66.24333°N 161.04417°WCoordinates: 66°14′36″N 161°02′39″W / 66.24333°N 161.04417°W [2] |
| Length | 67 mi (108 km) [2] |
  Location of the mouth of the Buckland River in Alaska
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The Buckland River (Kaniq in Inupiaq) is a stream, 67 miles (108 km) long, in the U.S. state of Alaska.[2] It flows northwest to the Chukchi Sea at Eschscholtz Bay, 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Selawik in the Northwest Arctic Borough.[2]
Naval officer Frederick William Beechey named the river in 1826 for a geology professor at the University of Oxford in England. Other 19th-century names for the river included Russian translations of the Inuit as Kanyk and the Koyukon Indian as Kotsokhotana. Another translation of the Inuit was Kung-uk.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ Derived by entering source coordinates in Google Earth.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Buckland River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. March 23, 2001. Retrieved September 18, 2013.
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