| Buckland River | |
| Map Size: | 300 |
| Pushpin Map: | USA Alaska |
| Pushpin Map Size: | 300 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the mouth of the Buckland River in Alaska |
| Subdivision Type1: | Country |
| Subdivision Name1: | United States |
| Subdivision Type2: | State |
| Subdivision Name2: | Alaska |
| Subdivision Type4: | Borough |
| Subdivision Name4: | Northwest Arctic |
| Length: | 67miles |
| Source1: | Confluence of the river's north and south forks |
| Source1 Location: | South of the Selawik Hills, Seward Peninsula |
| Source1 Coordinates: | 65.75°N -160.0397°W |
| Source1 Elevation: | 146feet[1] |
| Mouth: | Eschscholtz Bay on Kotzebue Sound of the Chukchi Sea |
| Mouth Location: | 40miles southwest of Selawik |
| Mouth Coordinates: | 66.2433°N -161.0442°W[2] |
| Mouth Elevation: | 0feet |
The Buckland River (Kaŋiq in Inupiaq) is a stream, 67miles long, in the U.S. state of Alaska.[2] It flows northwest to the Chukchi Sea at Eschscholtz Bay, 40miles southwest of Selawik in the Northwest Arctic Borough.[2]
Naval officer Frederick William Beechey named the river in 1826 for a geology professor at the University of Oxford in England. Other 19th-century names for the river included Russian translations of the Inuit as Kanyk and the Koyukon Indian as Kotsokhotana. Another translation of the Inuit was Kung-uk.[2]