Information About

Firth River

Quick Facts

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Location

69 ° 33' 0" N,
139 ° 30' 0" W

Region

Nearest City

Kaktovik

Firth River in Detail.

About

Incomplete record. Heads at the E end of Davidson Mountains, flows NE across the Alaska-Canada boundary to the Beaufort Sea, SW of Herschel Island in Yukon Canada.

History

Named by J. H. Turner, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), in 1890, for John Firth, Hudson's Bay Company agent at Rampart house, who accompanied Turner to the Arctic coast that year.

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Rivers:

Firth River, Malcolm River,