Description
Heading in the Brooks Range in a lake at 683200 N1491200W and flows NW, then NE, to Gwydyr Bay on the Arctic coast 8 mi. SE of Beechey Point, Arctic Plain.
History
Eskimo name shown on a manuscript map drawn in 1901 by S. J. Marsh, prospector, who spelled it Koopowra and which he translated as "big river" (probably Kugauraq).