| Thelon River | |
|---|---|
 An oasis-like section of the Thelon, below Warden's Grove | |
 Drainage basin of the Thelon River | |
  Thelon River mouth location | |
| Etymology | "on the other side" in Inuktitut[2][3] |
| Native name | Akilinik (Inuktitut) |
| Location | |
| Country | Canada |
| Territories | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Whitefish Lake |
| • location | North Slave Region, Northwest Territories |
| • coordinates | 62°30′32″N 106°49′17″W / 62.50889°N 106.82139°W |
| • elevation | 371 m (1,217 ft) |
| Mouth | Chesterfield Inlet |
• location | Baker Lake, Nunavut |
• coordinates | 64°16′30″N 96°4′35″W / 64.27500°N 96.07639°W[1] |
• elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
| Length | 900 km (560 mi) |
| Basin size | 142,400 km2 (55,000 sq mi)[4] |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Dubawnt River, Kazan River |
The Thelon River (Inuktitut: Akilinik, lit. "on the other side")[5] stretches 900 kilometres (560 mi) across northern Canada. Its source is Whitefish Lake in the Northwest Territories, and it flows east to Baker Lake in Nunavut. The Thelon ultimately drains into Hudson Bay at Chesterfield Inlet.
- ^ "Thelon River". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 24 November 2010.
- ^ Clarke, Charles Henry Douglas (1940). A Biological Investigation of the Thelon Game Sanctuary. J. O. Patenaude, printer. p. 9.
- ^ The Musk-ox. Institute for Northern Studies, University of Saskatchewan. 1983. p. 59.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
atlaswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "The Stefansson-Anderson Arctic Expedition of the American Museum: Preliminary Ethnological Report". Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History. 14. New York: American Museum of Natural History: 26. 1919. ISSN 0065-9452. OCLC 1116815.