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Fawn Creek

Fawn Creek

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heads in lake, flows NW to Gwydyr Bay, 11 mi. SE of Beechey Point, Arctic Plain. 3.5 miles long.

History of Fawn Creek

Named "Fawn River by" P. W. Dease and Thomas Simpson, who recorded on August 8, 1837, "in the evening a little fawn came to the tents * * *; an incident that furnished a name for the streamlet" (in T. Simpson, 1843, p. 174).