Kogluktok

Kogluktok is associated with Kugluk, the rapids near the mouth of the Coppermine River. For thousands of years this was a fishing place, where people camped beside water rushing through a narrow rocky gorge. Copper found along the river was fashioned by Inuit into tools and weapons. In 1771 Samuel Hearne reached the falls with Dene companions, who attacked Inuit camped there; the event gave the rapids their English name, Bloody Falls.