Mackenzie River
Noun
Meaning
a Canadian river; flows into the Beaufort Sea
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Examples
Alexander Mackenzie had already charted a route in his quest for the Pacific, first following the later-named Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean in 1789.
In 2008, Canadian and Japanese researchers extracted a constant stream of natural gas from a test project at the Mallik gas hydrate site in the Mackenzie River delta.
Draining to the Arctic Ocean of Canada, the Mackenzie River drains waters from the Arctic Great Lakes of Arctic Canada, as opposed to the Saint-Lawrence River that drains the Great Lakes of Southern Canada into the Atlantic Ocean.
During eight months of the year the waters of the Mackenzie River system are blocked by ice.
This species is found throughout the coastal waters of Alaska and British Columbia and as far south as Central California (Monterey Bay). citation It is also now known to occur, albeit infrequently, in the Mackenzie River.