The Tree River (Kogluktualuk) is a river in
Nunavut
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, Canada. It flows into
Coronation Gulf
Coronation Gulf lies between Victoria Island and mainland Nunavut in Canada. To the northwest it connects with Dolphin and Union Strait and thence the Beaufort Sea and Arctic Ocean; to the northeast it connects with Dease Strait and thence Queen M ...
, an arm of the
Arctic Ocean
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.
Glacial landform
Glacial landforms are landforms created by the action of glaciers. Most of today's glacial landforms were created by the movement of large ice sheets during the Quaternary glaciations. Some areas, like Fennoscandia and the southern Andes, have ...
s, such as a
kame delta, are represented in the area of the Tree River.
This area was the ancestral home of several
Copper Inuit
Copper Inuit, also known as Kitlinermiut and Inuinnait, are a Canadian Inuit group who live north of the tree line, in what is now the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut and in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Ter ...
bands, including the
Kogluktualugmiut (also known as
Utkusiksaligmiut), who lived along its shores; the
Pingangnaktogmiut, who lived west of the river; and the Nagyuktogmiut (also known as
Killinermiut), who lived east of Tree River.
See also
*
List of rivers of the Northwest Territories
This is a list of rivers that are in whole or partly in the Northwest Territories, Canada.
By watershed
Arctic Ocean watershed
* Back River (Nunavut)
;Canadian Arctic Archipelago
*Hornaday River (Nunavut)
* Kagloryuak River (Nunavut)
* Nanook ...
*
List of rivers of Nunavut
This is a list of rivers that are in whole or partly in Nunavut, Canada:
By watershed Arctic watershed
*Beaufort Sea
**Great Bear Lake (Northwest Territories)
*** Bloody River
***Dease River
** Horton River
*Viscount Melville Sound
** Nanook River ...
References
External links
* Photos,
Geological Survey of Canada
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:
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Gorge east of Tree River*
Tree River's marine silt*
Tree River's glacial landscape in metasedimentary rock*
Tree River's dykes
Rivers of Kitikmeot Region
Rivers of the Northwest Territories
Former populated places in the Kitikmeot Region
Kames
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