Morkill River
River in British Columbia, Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Morkill River is a tributary of the Fraser River in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
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Morkill River | |
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Location | |
Country | Canada |
Province | British Columbia |
District | Cariboo Land District |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | Big Shale Hill |
• location | Park Ranges, Rocky Mountains |
• coordinates | 53°35′48″N 119°46′29″W[1] |
• elevation | 1,990 m (6,530 ft)[2] |
Mouth | Fraser River |
• location | Loos, Robson Valley |
• coordinates | 53°36′45″N 120°42′17″W[3] |
• elevation | 646 m (2,119 ft)[2] |
Discharge | |
• location | gage 08KA013[4] |
• average | 37.8 m3/s (1,330 cu ft/s)[4] |
• minimum | 3.72 m3/s (131 cu ft/s) |
• maximum | 420 m3/s (15,000 cu ft/s) |
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The river is named after Dalby Brooks Morkill, an employee of the British Columbia Land Survey. He assayed the Morkill area in 1911 and 1912.[5]