🚢 The Kink

United States · Americas · 64.39°N, 142.03°W

The Kink is a manmade feature of the North Fork Fortymile River in remote eastern Alaska. It is a channel that was blasted through a rock ridge by gold miners in 1904, in the belief that bypassing a horseshoe-shaped meander in the river's natural flow would reveal gold deposits. The effort was unsuccessful.

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Country	United States
Continent / region	Americas
Coordinates (approx.)	64.39°N, 142.03°W · view on map

The Kink is located in United States, in Americas.

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