Kendall River is a small river and tributary to the

Coppermine River The Coppermine River is a river in the North Slave and Kitikmeot regions of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Canada. It is long. It rises in Lac de Gras, a small lake near Great Slave Lake, and flows generally north to Coronation Gulf, a ...

in the

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that connects the Dismal Lakes to the Coppermine River.

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had a base camp here in 1851. Based on data collected at a gauging station that operated between 1969 and 1990, the river has a drainage area is , a mean annual flow of , an average peak flow of and an average low flow of zero, when the river freezes, usually between mid November and late May. Summer flows from the Kendall represent approximately 6% of the flow of the Coppermine River.

References

Coppermine River: Overview of the Hydrology and Water Quality
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada Rivers of the Northwest Territories {{NorthwestTerritories-river-stub

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