The Buckland River is a 67 mi. long river

River

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 in the U.S. state

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 of Alaska

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. It flows northwest to the Chukchi Sea

Chukchi Sea

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 at Eschscholtz Bay

Eschscholtz Bay

Eschscholtz Bay is an arm of Kotzebue Sound, on the Chukchi Sea-facing coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is only eleven miles wide.It is located on the northern coast of the Seward Peninsula, 45 miles southwest of Selawik; Kotzebue-Kobuk Low. ....

, 40 mi. Southwest of Selawik

Selawik

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, Kotzebue-Kobuk Low

Nome Census Area, Alaska

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. It is 67 miles (108 km) long.

This river was named in 1826 by Capt. Beechey (1831, p. 323)RN, who wrote, " ...upon the river ... I bestowed the name ... of Buckland, in compliment to Dr. Buckland, the Professor of Geology at Oxford ..."

The Russian Hydrographic Department Chart 1455 of 1852 gives the river's Inuit

Inuit

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 name as "Kanyk" and its Koyukan Indian name as "Kotsokhotana." Dall (1871, p. 284) gives the Inuit

Inuit

The Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada , Denmark , Russia and the United States . Inuit means “the people” in the Inuktitut language...

name as "Kung-uk."