Ruggles River

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The '''Ruggles River''' is a waterway in [[Qikiqtaaluk Region]], [[Nunavut]], [[Canada]]. It is located within [[Ellesmere Island]]'s [[Quttinirpaaq National Park]]. The Ruggles River flows southeast to [[Chandler Fiord]] and out to [[Lady Franklin Bay]].

It is the most high-latitude of the known rivers, whose watercourse persists throughout the year without drying out or freezing of the channel in winter. The inflow of water in winter is provided by [[Lake Hazen]], in the middle part of which its source is located.<ref name="Clark">{{cite web|url=http://www.eman-rese.ca/eman/reports/publications/nm97_hazen/intro.html|title=Assessing the Health of the Lake Hazen Ecosystem, Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories|last=Clark|first=Douglas|date=2000-09-07|work=eman-rese.ca|publisher=Parks Canada|accessdate=4 March 2010|url-status=usurped|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928122702/http://www.eman-rese.ca/eman/reports/publications/nm97_hazen/intro.html|archivedate=28 September 2007}}</ref> But during exceptionally cold years, the Ruggles River can freeze to the bottom in winter due to the low level of the lake.

The river drops {{convert|157|m|ft|abbr=on}} in elevation between its source and its mouth. At less than {{convert|1.5|m|ft|abbr=on}} deep, it is quite shallow.<ref name="Babaluk">{{cite journal|last=Babaluk|first=J.A. |author2=H.R. Wissink |author3=B.G. Troke |author4=D.A. Clark |author5=J.D. Johnson|date=December 2001|title=Summer Movements of Radio-Tagged Arctic Charr {''Salvelinus alpinus''} in Lake Hazen, Nunavut, Canada|journal=Arctoc|publisher=aina.ucalgary.ca|volume=54|issue=4|pages=419|url=http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic54-4-418.pdf}}</ref> It is populated by [[Arctic char]].<ref name="Babaluk" />

==History== In 1958, a 13th-century winter house was excavated along the Ruggles River.<ref name="Nabokov">{{cite book|last=Nabokov|first=Peter|author2=Robert Easton |title=Native American architecture|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=1989 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/nativeamericanar0000nabo/page/191 191]|isbn=0-19-503781-2|url=https://archive.org/details/nativeamericanar0000nabo|url-access=registration|quote=ruggles.}}</ref>

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

==References== {{Reflist}}

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[[Category:Ellesmere Island]] [[Category:Rivers of the Qikiqtaaluk Region]]