The Soper River ( Inuktitut: , meaning "the great river") () is a waterway on Baffin Island, Nunavut. The river flows over and then empties into

Soper Lake Tasiujarjuaq (Inuktitut syllabics: ''ᑕᓯᐅᔭᕐᔪᐊᖅ'', meaning "big lake-like lake") formerly Soper Lake is a large, irregularly shaped lake in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located on Baffin Island's Meta Incognita Pen ...

and Pleasant Inlet. The Soper River was designated a

Canadian Heritage River The Canadian Heritage Rivers System (CHRS; french: Le réseau de rivières du patrimoine canadien) is a joint program administered by the federal, provincial and territorial governments to conserve and protect the best examples of Canada's river her ...

in 1992.

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The Soper River region's

plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclu ...

s have not been studied or inventoried since the 1920s.CTV: Canadian botanists, embark on old-school Baffin study
/ref>Canadian Museum of Nature Leads Botanical Expedition to Nunavut
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botanists from the National Herbarium of Canada travelled to the Soper River region to assess the region's botanical biodiversity by collecting samples and cataloguing the plant specimens. The expedition was part of a five-year project to record

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flora Flora is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous (ecology), indigenous) native plant, native plants. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora, as in the terms '' ...

and improve the

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of the

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.Five-Year Project to Record Arctic's Botanical Bounty
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References

Rivers of Qikiqtaaluk Region Canadian Heritage Rivers Bodies of water of Baffin Island {{Nunavut-river-stub

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