Koukdjuak River

The Koukdjuak in the Great Plain of Koukdjuak

The Koukdjuak (English Koukdjuak River, French Rivière Koukdjuak ) is a river on Baffin Island in the Canadian territory of Nunavut.

It forms the outflow of net Illing Lake and empties into the Foxe Basin. The Great level of Koukdjuak in the western part of Baffin Island along the Foxe Basin was named after him.

The first non - Inuit, who explored the river was the Canadian Arctic explorer and ornithologist Joseph Dewey Soper ( 1893-1982 ). The northern boundary of the bird sanctuary Dewey Soper Migratory Bird Sanctuary runs along the Koukdjuak. The river is important for the Barren-ground caribou, which have to cross it during their migration. In the river chars to be caught.