Bloody Falls

Bloody Falls ( or Kogluktok ) is a rapids in Nunavut, Canada and is 15 km above the mouth of the Coppermine River to the Arctic Ocean.

The British explorer Samuel Hearne named it after the Bloody Falls Massacre, in which 20 people were killed in 1771 live. Kugluktuk, the nearest settlement, located nearly 16 km away. Bloody Falls in 1978 was declared a National Historic Site. In Bloody Falls were found archaeological remains of Inuit, probably around 1300 BC lived there. The Inuit use the area today as a fishing camp.