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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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Since then Philip had pointed his canoe straight UP the Dubawnt waterways, and was a hundred and twenty miles nearer to civilization.

From God's Country—And the Woman by Curwood, James Oliver

Just once, in May, Charles Schweder has found them crossing a lake 18 which he considered Dubawnt, but may have been Kamiluk.

From The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Harper, Francis

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 Tyrrell, J. B.

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 Tyrrell, J. B.

No. My boys were raised on the rapids of the Dubawnt River.

From The Heart of Unaga by Cullum, Ridgwell