Buckland River
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For the river in Australia, see Buckland River (Victoria).
The Buckland River is a 67 mi. long river in the U.S. state of Alaska. It flows northwest to the Chukchi Sea at Eschscholtz Bay, 40 mi. Southwest of Selawik, Kotzebue-Kobuk Low.[1] It is 67 miles (108 km) long.
This river was named in 1826 by Capt. Beechey (1831, p. 323)RN, who wrote, " ...upon the river ... I bestowed the name ... of Buckland, in compliment to Dr. Buckland, the Professor of Geology at Oxford ..."
The Russian Hydrographic Department Chart 1455 of 1852 gives the river's Inuit name as "Kanyk" and its Koyukan Indian name as "Kotsokhotana." Dall (1871, p. 284) gives the Inuit name as "Kung-uk."
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- ^ USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). Buckland River. Accessed Aug 20, 2007.
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Coordinates: 66°14′36″N 161°02′39″W / 66.24333°N 161.04417°W
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