Boas River
The Boas is a river on Southampton Island in Nunavut, Canada. The river rises at and its mouth is located at the Bay of Gods Mercy. Proceeding inland, the river becomes braided and is about 5 kilometres wide. It is named after anthropologist Franz Boas.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Boas River
- Type: Stream
- Description: watercourse in Nunavut, Canada
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Boas River” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Boas River”
- Dutch: “Boas”
- Irish: “Abhainn Boas”
- Spanish: “Boas”
- Swedish: “Boas River”
- Welsh: “Afon Boas”
- “Boas”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Boas River”. Photo: FiLo X, CC BY-SA 3.0.