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The Buckland River (''Kaŋiq'' in Inupiaq) is a stream, long, in the
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. It flows northwest to the
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at
Eschscholtz Bay Eschscholtz Bay is an arm of Kotzebue Sound, on the Chukchi Sea-facing coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is up to eleven miles wide, and separated from the outer Kotzebue Sound by Choris Peninsula and Chamisso Island. It is located on the n ...
, southwest of Selawik in the
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. Naval officer
Frederick William Beechey Rear-Admiral Frederick William Beechey (17 February 1796 – 29 November 1856) was an English naval officer, artist, explorer, hydrographer and writer. Life and career He was the son of two painters, Sir William Beechey, RA and his sec ...
named the river in 1826 for a geology professor at the
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in England. Other 19th-century names for the river included Russian translations of the
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as ''Kanyk'' and the
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Indian as ''Kotsokhotana.'' Another translation of the Inuit was ''Kung-uk.''


See also

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List of rivers of Alaska This is a List of rivers in Alaska, which are at least fifth-order according to the Strahler stream order, Strahler method of stream classification, and an incomplete list of otherwise-notable rivers and streams. Alaska has more than 12,000 rivers, ...


References

Drainage basins of the Chukchi Sea Rivers of the Seward Peninsula Rivers of Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska Rivers of Alaska {{Alaska-river-stub