The Kink
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
The Kink
- Type: Channel
- Description: manmade feature of the North Fork Fortymile River in remote eastern Alaska
- Categories: canal and body of water
- Location: Southeast Fairbanks, Alaska, United States, North America
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