Canning_River_(Alaska)

Canning River (Alaska)

Canning River (Alaska)

River in Alaska

For the river in Western Australia, see Canning River.

The Canning River flows through parts of the North Slope in the U.S. state of Alaska.[1] The river begins in the Franklin Mountains of the Brooks Range in the northeastern part of the state.[3] It flows generally north for 125 miles (201 km)[1] through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and enters Camden Bay west of Kaktovik on the Beaufort Sea.[3]

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  1. [1]
    "Canning River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. March 31, 1981. Retrieved September 2, 2013.
  2. [2]
    Source elevation derived from Google Earth search using GNIS source coordinates.
  3. [3]
    Alaska Atlas & Gazetteer (7th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 2010. pp. 135–37. ISBN 978-0-89933-289-5.


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