Koukdjuak River

{{Short description|River in Canada}} {{Infobox river | name = Koukdjuak River | native_name = | native_name_lang = | name_other = | name_etymology =  | image = | image_caption = | map = | map_size = | map_caption = | pushpin_map = | pushpin_map_size = | pushpin_map_caption=  | subdivision_type1 = Country | subdivision_name1 = [[Canada]] | subdivision_type2 = | subdivision_name2 = | subdivision_type3 = Territory | subdivision_name3 = [[Nunavut]] | subdivision_type4 = | subdivision_name4 = | subdivision_type5 = | subdivision_name5 =  | length_km = 80 | length_ref = <ref name="West Hudson Bay">{{cite web|url=https://www.riversnetwork.org/V1/index.php/component/content/?view=article&id=144&catid=317&Itemid=179|title=West Hudson Bay}}</ref> | width_min = | width_avg = | width_max = | depth_min = | depth_avg = | depth_max = | discharge1_location= Near mouth | discharge1_min = | discharge1_avg = (Period: 1971–2000){{cvt|689.2|m3/s|cuft/s|abbr=on}}<ref name="West Hudson Bay">{{cite web|url=https://www.riversnetwork.org/V1/index.php/component/content/?view=article&id=144&catid=317&Itemid=179|title=West Hudson Bay}}</ref> | discharge1_max =  | source1 = [[Nettilling Lake]] | source1_location = Southern [[Baffin Island]] | source1_coordinates= {{coord|66|34|48|N|71|21|23|W|display=inline}} | source1_elevation = {{convert|28|m|ft|abbr=on}}<ref name="source">Source elevation derived from [[Google Earth]].</ref> | mouth = [[Foxe Basin]] | mouth_location = | mouth_coordinates = {{coord|66|44|30|N|73|03|21|W|display=inline}} | mouth_elevation = {{convert|0|ft|abbr=on}}<ref name="mouth">Mouth elevation derived from [[Google Earth]].</ref> | progression = | river_system = Koukdjuak River | basin_size_km2 = 66,542.8 | basin_size_ref = <ref name="West Hudson Bay">{{cite web|url=https://www.riversnetwork.org/V1/index.php/component/content/?view=article&id=144&catid=317&Itemid=179|title=West Hudson Bay}}</ref> | tributaries_left = | tributaries_right = | custom_label = | custom_data = | extra = }}

The '''Koukdjuak River''' begins at the outlet of [[Nettilling Lake]] and empties into the [[Arctic Ocean]]. It is the namesake of the [[Great Plain of the Koukdjuak]] located in the [[Foxe Basin]] on western [[Baffin Island]], [[Nunavut]] (formerly [[Northwest Territories]]), [[northern Canada]].

The first non-[[Inuit]] who specifically explored the river was the Canadian [[Arctic explorer]]/[[ornithologist]], [[J. Dewey Soper]]. The northern boundary of the [[Isulijarniq Migratory Bird Sanctuary]] is the middle thread of the Koukdjuak River. The river is also notable as a [[Barren-ground caribou]] migration crossing and for [[Arctic char]]r fishing.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.canlii.org/ca/regu/crc1036/part144393.html |title=Migratory Bird Sanctuary Regulations |publisher=canlii.org |accessdate=2008-01-21}}</ref>

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

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== * Kraft, Paul G. ''Caribou Tagging on the Koukdjuak River, Baffin Island, N.W.T. A Summary and Analysis of Tag Returns''. Yellowknife: N.W.T. Wildlife Service, 1984. {{ISBN|0-7708-7140-2}} * Kristofferson, A. H., R. D. Sopuck, and D. K. McGowan. ''Commercial Fishing Potential for Searun Arctic Charr, Koukdjuak River and Nettilling Lake, Northwest Territories''. Canadian manuscript report of fisheries and aquatic sciences, no. 2120. Winnipeg: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 1991.

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[[Category:Bodies of water of Baffin Island]] [[Category:Rivers of the Qikiqtaaluk Region]]