Photo By/Credit
Katrina Liebich/USFWS
Date Shot/Created
09/30/2021Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
Shublik Spring emerges from a mountainside in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge before flowing across tundra and into the Canning River. It flows at the same volume and temperature (~5.5ᵒC) all year, every year. Radio carbon dating indicates this ancient water was last exposed to the atmosphere 1,200 years ago.
Facility
Ecosystem
River/stream