Croker River

{{Short description|River in Nunavut, Canada}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

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| subdivision_name1 = Canada

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| subdivision_name2 = Nunavut

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| mouth_location = Amundsen Gulf

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The Croker River is a waterway above the Arctic Circle on the mainland of Northern Canada in the western Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut. It is the largest river between Darnley Bay (in the Northwest Territories) and Coronation Gulf that flows into Amundsen Gulf.{{cite book|last=Bowman|first=Isaiah |author2=G. M. Wrigley|title=Geographical review|publisher=American Geographical Society|date=1917|edition=Digitized December 3, 2007|volume=4|pages=256|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UjQSAAAAYAAJ&q=%22croker+river%22&pg=PA264}} The Croker averages {{cvt|180|ft|m|order=flip}} in width.

It originates at Bluenose Lake then flows northward. It passes through a dolomite box canyon {{cvt|5|mi|order=flip}} from the coast, before reaching a triangular shaped delta {{cvt|24|km}} west of Clifton Point {{Coord|69|13|N|118|38|W|region:CA-NU_type:landmark_scale:100000|name=Clifton Point (Croker River)|notes={{Cite cgndb|OADNS|Clifton Point}}}}, and then entering Amundsen Gulf's Dolphin and Union Strait.{{cite book|last=Hodgins|first=Bruce W. |author2=Gwyneth Hoyle|title=Canoeing north into the unknown: a record of river travel, 1874 to 1974|publisher=Dundurn Press Ltd.|date=1994|pages=168|isbn=0-920474-93-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eBn41p-P9lYC&q=%22croker+river%22&pg=PA168}}

Croker River is named after John Wilson Croker, Secretary to the Admiralty.{{cite book|last=Taylor|first=Isaac |title=Names and Their Histories: A Handbook of Historical Geography and Topographical Nomenclature|publisher=Rivingtons|date=1898|pages=[https://archive.org/details/namesandtheirhi00taylgoog/page/n115 101]|url=https://archive.org/details/namesandtheirhi00taylgoog|quote=croker river.}}

Croker River (PIN 1BG) is a former Distant Early Warning Line and a current North Warning System site.{{cite web|url=http://www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=2B7B73EE-1&toc=show&offset=12|title=Projects and Communities in the Database|publisher=ceaa-acee.gc.ca|accessdate=2009-03-08|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110617113839/http://www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=2B7B73EE-1&toc=show&offset=12|archivedate=2011-06-17}}