Alaska Gazetteer
Canning River is a physical feature (stream) in North Slope Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Canning River |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Stream |
| Description: | heads at glacier in Franklin Mts. at 690430N1450600W, and flows N to Camden Bay, Arctic Plain. 125 miles long. |
| History: | "On August 5, 1826, Franklin (1828, p. 149) wrote: ""we arrived opposite to the large river, which was named in honour of the late Mr. Canning * * *."" George Canning, 1770-1827, was British Prime Minister in 1827. The Eskimo name ""Kogruak"" first appears on Surg. John Simpson's native map of 1855, and is reported by Leffingwell (1919, p. 94) to mean ""old river""." |
| Borough: | North Slope Borough |
| Latitude: | 70.0783309937 |
| Longitude: | -145.565551758 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Canning River: Canning River.
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