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Dubawnt

American  
[doo-bawnt] / dʊˈbɔnt /

noun

  1. a river in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Canada, flowing NE to Baker Lake. 580 miles (933 km) long.


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The area near the western border of Keewatin, lying at some distance south of Dubawnt Lake and west of the upper Kazan River, does not appear to attract large numbers of Caribou.

From The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Francis Harper

The Dubawnt river midway in its course expands into Dubawnt Lake, a great sheet of water some sixty-five miles long and forty miles broad.

From Adventurers of the Far North A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas by Stephen Leacock

Thence he turned south-westward until he reached Dubawnt River, where it flows from Dubawnt Lake.

From A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by J. B. Tyrrell

The Caribou of the Dubawnt River region, as far as may be judged from J. B.

From The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Francis Harper

It is probable therefore that his quadrant was broken on the great plain which lies to the west of the lake, and north-west of the Dubawnt River above the lake.

From A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by J. B. Tyrrell

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