Rivière Wheeler
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| location | Nunavik , North du Québec in Québec (Canada) | |
| River system | Rivière à la Baleine | |
| Drain over | Rivière à la Baleine → Ungava Bay | |
| source | south of Lac Keato 55 ° 41 ′ 51 ″ N , 66 ° 37 ′ 8 ″ W |
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Rivière à la Baleine Coordinates: 57 ° 4 ′ 9 ″ N , 67 ° 9 ′ 35 ″ W 57 ° 4 ′ 9 ″ N , 67 ° 9 ′ 35 ″ W
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| length | approx. 220 km | |
| Left tributaries | Rivière Murdoch | |
| Right tributaries | Outflow of the Lac Vannes | |
| Flowing lakes | Lac Keato , Lac Wheeler | |
Rivière Wheeler is a left tributary of the Rivière à la Baleine in the north of the Labrador Peninsula in the Canadian province of Québec .
The river has its origin south of Lac Keato , almost 300 km south of Ungava Bay . It flows north. It forms the lake Lac Wheeler in the lower reaches . Numerous rapids mark its last four kilometers before its confluence with the Rivière à la Baleine . The place where these two rivers meet is called Kanniq , the Naskapi word for "confluence".
The river was named after EP Wheeler, an American geologist at Cornell University who traveled to Labrador and the Ungava Peninsula in 1926–1928.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Commission de toponymie du Québec - Rivière Wheeler