Heding in a lake at the W end of the Sadlerochit Mountains, flows in NNE to the main tributary of the Canning River, 2 mi. SW of its mouth on the Beaufort Sea, Arctic Plain.
Eskimo name reported in 1912 by Leffingwell (1919, p. 100), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), meaning "route where one can get lost".