Egg River

Coordinates: 46°59′21″N 95°36′53″W / 46.9891263°N 95.6147586°W / 46.9891263; -95.6147586[3]
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Egg River
Location
CountryUnited States
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationMinnesota

The Egg River is a 16-mile-long (26 km)[1] tributary of the Otter Tail River of Minnesota in the United States. It flows through a chain of lakes in the Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge and the White Earth Indian Reservation in Becker County, Minnesota.

Egg River, as well as the Egg Lakes through which it flows, is an English translation of the original

Ojibway word for the stream and proximate habitat, once characterized as a nesting area for water-loving birds.[2]

See also

46°59′21″N 95°36′53″W / 46.9891263°N 95.6147586°W / 46.9891263; -95.6147586[3]

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed June 8, 2011
  2. ^ Upham, Warren (1920). Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance. Minnesota Historical Society. p. 32.
  3. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Egg River