Buckland River
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| Buckland River | |
|---|---|
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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 | Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.[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 | Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 489: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).[1] |
• elevation | 0 ft (0 m)[1] |
| Length | 67 mi (108 km)[1] |
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]
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]
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