Ray River
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| Water code | US : 1408560 | |
| location | Alaska (USA) | |
| River system | Yukon River | |
| Drain over | Yukon River → Bering Sea | |
| Headwaters |
Alaska Interior 65 ° 50 ′ 8 ″ N , 151 ° 1 ′ 1 ″ W |
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Yukon River Coordinates: 65 ° 52 ′ 41 " N , 149 ° 48 ′ 15" W 65 ° 52 ′ 41 " N , 149 ° 48 ′ 15" W. |
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| Mouth height |
79 m
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| length | 69 km | |
The Ray River is a 69 km long right tributary of the Yukon River in central Alaska .
It rises in the Interior , flows eastward in a north-facing arc and flows into the Yukon River about 45 km northeast of Rampart . The Ray River is west of the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge .
The river was named in 1885 after Patrick Henry Ray, a captain in the US Army , who set up a station in Barrow in 1881 for meteorological measurements and studies of the earth's magnetic field . The native name for the river is "Tseetoht," according to William Healey Dall , a malacologist who participated in an 1867 Yukon expedition by the Western Union Telegraph . The spelling “Shetchaut” was also documented.