Roscoe River
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The Roscoe River is a waterway located above the Arctic Circle on the mainland of Northern Canada.
It originates at {{coord|68|41|55|N|120|12|35|W|type:waterbody_region:CA-NU|name=Roscoe River (head)}} in western Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, northwest of Bluenose Lake. The river passes through the Melville Hills and Tuktut Nogait National Park in the Northwest Territories, before emptying into Amundsen Gulf at its juncture with Dolphin and Union Strait, between Deas Thompson Point and Tysoe Point.
History
During the Stefánsson-Anderson Arctic expedition of 1908–12, expedition party members found Inuit village ruins near the river.{{cite book|last=Stefansson|first=Vilhjalmur |title=The Stefánsson-Anderson Arctic Expedition of the American Museum: Preliminary Ethnological Report|publisher=American Museum of Natural History|date=1914|edition=Digitized October 9, 2007|pages=226, 305|oclc=13626409|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-NhBAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Roscoe+River%22&pg=PA305}}
See also
References
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- Information on Roscoe River from the Atlas of Canada
{{Rivers of Nunavut}}
{{Northwest Territories hydrography}}
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Category:Rivers of Kitikmeot Region
Category:Rivers of the Northwest Territories
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