Roscoe [1] ( born Roscoe River ) is a river located beyond the Arctic Circle , in the continental part of Northern Canada .
| Roscoe | |
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| English Roscoe river | |
| Watercourse | |
| Source | |
| • Coordinates | |
| Mouth | Amundsen Bay |
| • Height | 0 m |
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| Location | |
| A country |
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| Regions | Nunavut , Northwest Territories |
 - source  - mouth | |
It starts from an unnamed lake [2] in the western part of Kitikmeot region of Nunavut province.
It flows through the Melville Hills and Tuktut Nogait National Park in the Northwest Territories , then flows into Amundsen Bay at its junction with the Dolphin and Union Strait, between Cape Deas Thompson Point and Taiso . Tysoe Point ) in the Northwest Territories.
History
During the polar expedition of Stefanson - Anderson from 1908 to 1912, research participants discovered the ruins of an Inuit village in the vicinity of the river [3] .
Notes
- ↑ Roscoe River, Kitikmeot, Unorganized, NU, Canada . maps.google.com (2014). Date of treatment January 17, 2014.
- ↑ Map (English) on MappingSupport.com
- ↑ Stefansson, Vilhjalmur. The Stefánsson-Anderson Arctic Expedition of the American Museum . - American Museum of Natural History, 1914. - Vol. 14. - P. 226, 305. - 395 p. - (1-2).