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The Chandalar River (T'eedriinjik [6] in Gwich'in) is a 100-mile (160 km) tributary of the Yukon River in the U.S. state of Alaska. [1] Its French name was "Gens de Large" or "nomadic people" which when written in English from its local pronunciation evolved into "Chandalar."
North Fork East Fork Chandalar River – 54 miles (87 km) Wind River – 80 miles (130 km) Junjik River – 65 miles (105 km) Middle Fork Chandalar River – 102 miles (164 km) North Fork Chandalar River – 104 miles (167 km) Christian River – 140 miles (230 km) Porcupine River – 569 miles (916 km) Grass River – 39 miles (63 km)
Chandalar is an unincorporated community in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. Chandalar is located on the eastern shore of Chandalar Lake by Chandalar Lake Airport , about 200 miles north of Fairbanks , and is at an elevation of 1,873 feet.
The Gwichyaa Gwichʼin are the easternmost of the Gwichʼin groups. [7] In addition to the Kutchakutchin, there were four other main Kutchin groups in the upper Yukon-Porcupine regions: the Han (Hän Hwëch'in) (erroneously as Hankutchin grouped as an Kutchin group, upper Yukon), the Natsikutchin (Chandalar River drainage), the Tranjikutchin (Black River), and the Ventakutchin (Crow River area ...
It encompasses most of the Yukon Flats, a vast wetland area centered on the confluence of the Yukon River, Porcupine River, and Chandalar River. The area is a significant waterfowl breeding ground, and after a proposal to flood the Yukon Flats via a dam on the Yukon River was turned down, the Yukon Flats were deemed worthy of protection.
Arctic Village is located at (68.121828, -145.527686), [6] on the east fork of the Chandalar River, about a hundred miles north of Fort Yukon The area consists of flat floodlands near the river, but is mostly wooded hills.
They extend from the Sagavanirktok River and North Fork Chandalar River on the southwest to Canning River and East Fork Chandalar River on the northeast. [1] The range was named in 1950 after Philip Sidney Smith (1877-1949), chief Alaska geologist of the USGS from 1925 to 1946. [1] The highest point in the range is Accomplishment Peak at 8,045 ...
The Mission Church is a historic Episcopal log church building on the eastern fork of the Chandalar River in Arctic Village, Alaska, inside the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Known also as Old Missionary Church and as Old Log Church, it was built in 1917. It was one of numerous mission churches established in Alaska by the Episcopal Church in ...