. . .'Kugluktuk' [a village on the Arctic Ocean which was once called 'Coppermine'] is a mistranslation of the Inuinnaqtun word, Qurluktuk: "the place of moving water".  'Kugluktuk' means 'two astonished people.' 

The heroine in my Back Tracker novels spent her preschool years in Canada's arctic.