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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river, about 800 km (500 mi) long, of northern Alaska flowing generally southwest from the Brooks Range to the Yukon River.
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Examples
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From here we flew an M-6 Maule Stole single-engine ski plane even farther north to the frozen North Fork of the Koyukuk River, about 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
Richard Bangs: So, You Think That's Cold? Richard Bangs 2011
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The ice on the Koyukuk River, which splits the Gates, had become thin and watery with the day, so we had to turn back just shy of the twin peaks, not far from the northern-most tree line.
Richard Bangs: So, You Think That's Cold? Richard Bangs 2011
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From here we flew an M-6 Maule Stole single-engine ski plane even farther north to the frozen North Fork of the Koyukuk River, about 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
Richard Bangs: So, You Think That's Cold? Richard Bangs 2011
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The ice on the Koyukuk River, which splits the Gates, had become thin and watery with the day, so we had to turn back just shy of the twin peaks, not far from the northern-most tree line.
Richard Bangs: So, You Think That's Cold? Richard Bangs 2011
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My father didn't know about the terrorist attack for weeks because he was on the Koyukuk River hunting moose.
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Koyukuk River and the neglected condition of the people had moved me the previous year to take up the matter.
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Hudson Stuck 1891
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Indians who knew every step of the way, until at last we reached the hut that marks the end of the second stage from the Koyukuk River, on the top of a birch hill.
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Hudson Stuck 1891
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Tanana to the Koyukuk River, for it passes over wind-swept, treeless wastes, where many men had lost their way.
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Hudson Stuck 1891
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The writer, with an Indian attendant, was travelling on the Koyukuk River from Coldfoot to Bettles, and, owing to a heavy, drifted trail, night had fallen while yet the road-house was far away.
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Hudson Stuck 1891
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If we were to reach Bettles on the Koyukuk River for Christmas, there was no more time to lose, and I was anxious to spend the next Sunday at
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Hudson Stuck 1891
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