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Buckland River
River in Alaska, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the river in Australia, see Buckland River (Victoria).
The Buckland River[pronunciation?] (Kaŋiq[pronunciation?] in Inupiaq) is a stream, 67 miles (108 km) long, in the U.S. state of Alaska.[1] It flows northwest to the Chukchi Sea at Eschscholtz Bay, 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Selawik in the Northwest Arctic Borough.[1]
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Location | |
Country | United States |
State | Alaska |
Borough | Northwest Arctic |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | Confluence of the river's north and south forks |
• location | South of the Selawik Hills, Seward Peninsula |
• coordinates | 65°45′00″N 160°02′23″W[1] |
• elevation | 146 ft (45 m)[2] |
Mouth | Eschscholtz Bay on Kotzebue Sound of the Chukchi Sea |
• location | 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Selawik |
• coordinates | 66°14′36″N 161°02′39″W[1] |
• elevation | 0 ft (0 m)[1] |
Length | 67 mi (108 km)[1] |
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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.[1]