Buckland River

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]

Buckland River
Location of the mouth of the Buckland River in Alaska
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 / 65.75000°N 160.03972°W / 65.75000; -160.03972^[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 / 66.24333°N 161.04417°W / 66.24333; -161.04417^[1]
• elevation	0 ft (0 m)^[1]
Length	67 mi (108 km)^[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]

See also

• List of rivers of Alaska

References

1. "Buckland River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. March 23, 2001. Retrieved September 18, 2013.
2. Derived by entering source coordinates in Google Earth.