Hoppner River

Infobox River
river_name = Hoppner River


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mouth =Dolphin and Union Strait/
Amundsen Gulf
basin_countries = Canada
length = convert|2|m|ft [cite web |url=http://www.geonames.org/5976929/hoppner-river.html |title=Hoppner River |accessdate=2008-10-04 |publisher=geonames.org]
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watershed = The flat-bottomed Hoppner River flows northward from the mainland (in an area previously referred to as Wollaston Land) into Dolphin and Union Strait at the juncture with the Amundsen Gulf in Nunavut, Canada. Long-tailed Duck ("Harelda glacialis") frequent the area. [cite web |url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa&cc=moa&sid=95e3f6e828e116b80d4cccd93c806bc1&view=text&rgn=main&idno=AJA5418.0001.001 |title=174 POINT CLIFTON.-HOPPNER RIVER |accessdate=2008-10-04 |last= |first= |coauthors= |date= |work= |publisher=umich.edu]

The river is one of several landforms named in honor of Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer Henry Parkyns Hoppner who charted the region during William Edward Parry's First, Second, and Third Arctic Expeditions. [cite book |title=Names and Their Histories: A Handbook of Historical Geography and Topographical Nomenclature |last=Taylor |first=Isaac |year=1898 |publisher=Rivingtons |location=London |oclc=4161840 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=vqgYAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA149&lpg=PA149&dq=%22HP+Hoppner%22&source=web&ots=gFWoNJzcVo&sig=2Js-cCvKEarvYzzZWr2pXRcqa0A&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result |pages=p. 149]

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