The Kink - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Kink - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
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. The effort was unsuccessful. Read more on Wikipedia
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