Hood River (Nunavut)

Hood River
The two-tier Wilberforce Falls of the Hood River are the highest waterfalls in Nunavut at around 50 meters (for comparison: Niagara Falls around 58 meters).
Data
location	Nunavut ( Canada )
River system	Hood River
source	Tahikafaaluk Lake 66 ° 35 ′ 35 ″  N , 112 ° 31 ′ 0 ″  W
Source height	approx.  440  m
muzzle	Arctic Sound Coordinates: 67 ° 25 '59 "  N , 108 ° 52' 59"  W 67 ° 25 '59 "  N , 108 ° 52' 59"  W.
Mouth height	0  m
Height difference	approx. 440 m
Bottom slope	approx. 1.8 ‰
length	approx. 240 km
Discharge at the gauge near the mouth	MQ 1994/2000	78 m³ / s
Left tributaries	James River
Right tributaries	Booth River
Waterfall Wilberforce Falls

The Hood River , located in the Canadian territory of Nunavut , is a river approximately 150 miles long.

It has its origin in the Canadian tundra in Tahikafaaluk Lake , near the border with the Northwest Territories and a few kilometers east of Napaktulik Lake . From there it flows in an easterly, later in a northerly direction, to the Arctic Ocean . It finally flows 80 km north-northwest of the Bathurst Inlet settlement into the Arctic Sound , a small bay west of Bathurst Inlet . The course of the river lies beyond the Arctic Circle and north of the tree line .

Arctic char are very common in the river and can reach lengths of up to one meter. The upper lakes along the Hood River can still be frozen into July. The river banks are home to grizzly bears , wolves , wolverines and musk ox .

In the short arctic summers, the Hood River is open to canoeists . The Barrenground caribou migrate through this region during this time. Musk ox and wolves are common here.

There are numerous rapids, waterfalls, and glaciers along the Hood River.

The Wilberforce Gorge is a steep and deep ravine extending km over a distance of 3 and up to 76 m depths reached. The Wilberforce Falls , above the gorge, are the highest waterfalls north of the Arctic Circle. The total height of 49 m is divided into two successively equal steps.

Important tributaries of the Hood River are the Booth River from the right and the James River from the left.

During Sir John Franklin's first overland expedition , the so-called Coppermine Expedition of 1819-1822, which had the goal of discovering the Northwest Passage , he encountered this river after first traveling downstream the Coppermine River and then himself turned east along the Arctic coast to Turnagain Point .

The river owes its name to the midshipman Robert Hood, who may have been murdered on the way back to Fort Enterprise on this expedition .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hood River at the gauge near the mouth - hydrographic data from R-ArcticNET
2. ^ Notes in Sir John Richardson's Journals.