Kuunajuk

{{Infobox river | name = Kuunajuk | image = | image_caption = | pushpin_map = Canada Nunavut | pushpin_map_caption= Mouth of the Kuunajuk | subdivision_type1 = Country | subdivision_name1 = Canada | subdivision_type2 = Territory | subdivision_name2 = Nunavut | source1_location = Between Beechey Lake and Pelly Lake, Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada | mouth_location = Queen Maud Gulf | mouth_coordinates = {{coord|68|02|57|N|103|59|24|W|region:CA-NU_type:river_source:http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique/OEBIZ|display=inline,title}} | length = {{convert|287|km|abbr=on}} | source1_elevation = {{convert|3|m|abbr=on}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geonames.org/5947845/ellice-river.html|title=Ellice River ca. 3 m|publisher=geonames.org|accessdate= 2008-10-22}}</ref> | discharge1_avg = | basin_size ={{convert|16900|km2|abbr=on}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.r-arcticnet.sr.unh.edu/v3.0/Points/P3683.html|title=Ellice River near the mouth|publisher=unh.edu|accessdate=2008-10-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205011545/http://www.r-arcticnet.sr.unh.edu/v3.0/Points/P3683.html|archive-date=2008-12-05|url-status=dead}}</ref> }} thumb|left|Edward Ellice, Jr. '''Kuunajuk''' formerly '''Ellice River''',<ref>[http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique/0c7410c4849c20c33cf438bcf31eda93 Kuunajuk (Formerly Ellice River)]</ref> for Edward Ellice, Jr., is a waterway in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada. It rises close to the Back River between Lake Beechey and Pelly Lake,<ref>{{cite book|last=Hodgins|first=B.W.|author2=Hoyle, G.|title=Canoeing North Into the Unknown: A Record of River Travel, 1874 to 1974|publisher=Dundurn Press Ltd. |date= 1997| page=177| isbn=0-920474-93-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eBn41p-P9lYC&pg=PA177}}</ref> and flows northward into the Queen Maud Gulf. Its mouth opens between Campbell Bay and Gernon Bay.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.maplandia.com/canada/nunavut/kitikmeot-region/ellice-river/|title=Ellice River Map — Satellite Images of Ellice River|publisher=maplandia.com|accessdate=2008-10-22}}</ref> The land between the river and Sherman Inlet is generally flat and marshy.<ref name="birds">{{cite journal|date=December 1947 |title=Birds of Perry River District|journal=The Wilson Bulletin |volume=59|issue=4|url=http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/wilson/v059n04/p0195-p0203.pdf|pages=195–203}}</ref> Muskox and barren-ground caribou frequent the area.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hunts.net/muskox%20Ellice%20River%20NWT%205502.html |title=Muskox/barren ground caribou combo hunt at Ellice River |publisher=hunts.net |accessdate=2008-10-22 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827205717/http://hunts.net/muskox%20Ellice%20River%20NWT%205502.html |archivedate=2008-08-27 }}</ref>

==Fauna== The river is home to Arctic char.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/csas/Csas/Publications/ResDocs-DocRech/2004/2004_052_e.htm |title=Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat Research Document – 2004/052 Status of Cambridge Bay Anadromous Arctic Char Stocks |last=Day |first=A.C. |date=2005-11-28 |publisher=dfo-mpo.gc.ca |accessdate=2008-10-22 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060715222517/http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/csas/Csas/Publications/ResDocs-DocRech/2004/2004_052_e.htm |archivedate=2006-07-15 }}</ref> Large populations of the American brant goose nest on coastal islands at the river's mouth.<ref name="birds" />

==See also== *List of rivers of Nunavut

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Category:Rivers of the Kitikmeot Region