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The Peel River (Teetł'it Gwinjik[5] in Gwich’in) is a tributary of the Mackenzie River in the Yukon and Northwest Territories in Canada. Its source is in the Ogilvie Mountains in the central Yukon at the confluence of the Ogilvie River and Blackstone River. Its main tributaries are:

For the Australian river, see Peel River (New South Wales).
Peel River
Peel River, 1845
Location of mouth
Native nameTeetł'it Gwinjik  (Gwichʼin)
Location
CountryCanada
Territories
  • Yukon
  • Northwest Territories
Physical characteristics
SourceOgilvie Mountains
MouthMackenzie River
 • location
Mackenzie Delta
 • coordinates
67°0′0″N 134°59′3″W[1]
Basin size73,600 km2 (28,400 sq mi)[2]
Discharge 
 • locationFort McPherson[3]
 • average691 m3/s (24,400 cu ft/s)[4]
 • minimum46.8 m3/s (1,650 cu ft/s)
 • maximum8,800 m3/s (310,000 cu ft/s)

The Peel River joins the Mackenzie in the Mackenzie Delta. However, a distributary of the Peel is the headwater for a channel that later collects distributaries of the Mackenzie. This means that a channel can be followed for a longer distance downriver until it, itself, disseminates into the shared delta. This arguably adds a greater length to the Peel River.

The Dempster Highway crosses it at Fort McPherson, via a ferry during the summer months and an ice bridge during the winter. The Peel River is a wilderness river and Fort McPherson is the only community along its banks. The Yukon part of the Peel Watershed is undergoing land use planning.

Steven Kokelj, a specialist in permafrost, has documented significant changes in the balance of dissolved ions in the river's water as the region's permafrost starts to melt.[6] Ions of elements like calcium and sulphur dissolve easily when the permafrost thaws.


See also



References


  1. "Peel River". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2010-11-24.
  2. "Canada Drainage Basins". The National Atlas of Canada, 5th edition. Natural Resources Canada. 1985. Retrieved 24 November 2010.
  3. Peel River Above Fort McPherson (10MC002) – Hydrometric data from Environment Canada
  4. Peel River Above Fort McPherson (10MC002) – Hydrometric data from Environment Canada
  5. ANLC : Alaska Native Place Names
  6. Meagan Wohlberg (2013-05-13). "Permafrost thaw changing chemistry of Peel River: Ancient sediments deposited for the first time affecting streams". Northern Journal. Archived from the original on 2014-08-18. A new study by the NWT’s foremost expert on permafrost, Steven Kokelj, who works out of the NWT Geoscience Office, shows a very noticeable increase in the presence of certain ions over the last forty years as the area becomes more and more affected by permafrost thaw.
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На других языках

[de] Peel River (Mackenzie River)

Der Peel River ist ein 452 km (684 km einschließlich Quellfluss Ogilvie River) langer Nebenfluss des Mackenzie River im Yukon und in den Nordwest-Territorien in Kanada.
- [en] Peel River (Canada)

[it] Peel (fiume Canada)

Il Peel è un fiume del Canada, lungo circa 450 chilometri. Esso nasce sulle Ogilvie Mountains, nello Yukon, scorre prima verso ovest, poi verso nord ed infine, nei Territori del Nord-Ovest, confluisce nel fiume Mackenzie, poco prima che quest'ultimo si getti nel Mare di Beaufort. I maggiori affluenti del Peel, prima di immettervisi, scorrono da sud verso nord. Da ovest ad est sono i seguenti: l'Ogilvie, il Blackstone, l'Hart, il Wind, il Bonnet Plume e lo Snake.

[ru] Пил (река)

Пил (англ. Peel River) — река на северо-западе Канады в Юконе и на Северо-Западных территориях. Река образуется при слиянии рек Огилви и Блэкстон близ гор Огилви. Впадает в дельту реки Маккензи. Её длина вместе с рекой Огилви составляет 684 км, а площадь бассейна равна 73 600 км²[1]. Река была названа в честь сэра Роберта Пиль, 19-го премьер-министра Великобритании[2].


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