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Great Bear Lake (North Slavey: Sahtú; French: Grand lac de l'Ours) is a lake in the boreal forest of Canada. It is the largest lake entirely in Canada ( Lake Superior and Lake Huron are larger but straddle the Canada–US border ), the fourth-largest in North America, and the eighth-largest in the world . [ 4 ]
Northwest Territories lakes larger than 400 km 2 (150 sq mi); Lake Area (including islands) Altitude Depth max. Volume Great Bear Lake [2] [3]: 31,328 km 2 (12,096 sq mi) : 156 m (512 ft)
The Great Bear magmatic zone (GBMZ) is a Paleoproterozoic (1.875–1.86 Ga) multi-collisional orogenic belt of which 100 km × 400 km (62 mi × 249 mi) is exposed in the northwestern Canadian Shield east of Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories.
Dubawnt Lake: 3,833 km 2 (1,480 sq mi) Nunavut /Northwest Territories 18 17 Amadjuak Lake: 3,115 km 2 (1,203 sq mi) Nunavut 19 19 Lake Melville: 3,069 km 2 (1,185 sq mi) Newfoundland and Labrador (tidal lake) 20 20 Robert-Bourassa Reservoir: 2,815 km 2 (1,087 sq mi) Quebec 21 21 Wollaston Lake: 2,681 km 2 (1,035 sq mi) Saskatchewan (bifurcation ...
Longest freshwater lake in the world and third largest of any kind by volume. [18] 7: Baikal Russia: Fresh 31,722 km 2 12,248 sq mi 636 km 395 mi 1,642 m 5,387 ft 23,610 km 3 5,660 cu mi Deepest lake in the world and largest freshwater lake in the world by volume. [19] 8: Great Bear Lake Canada: Fresh 31,153 km 2 12,028 sq mi 373 km 232 mi 446 m
The Charter Community of Délı̨nę (North Slavey: [tʼe˥lĩnɛ̃]) is located in the Sahtu Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada, on the western shore of Great Bear Lake and is 544 km (338 mi) northwest of Yellowknife. Délı̨nę means "where the waters flow", a reference to the headwaters of the Great Bear River, Sahtúdé.
Saoyú-ʔehdacho (also known as Sahoyue-Edacho, Sahoyúé-§ehdacho, Saoyú and Æehdacho and Grizzly Bear Mountain and Scented Grass Hills) is a cultural landscape in the Northwest Territories, Canada, comprising two peninsulas in Great Bear Lake. [1] The site has great cultural and spiritual significance for the Sahtu people, [2] as it is ...
Northern Canadian Shield taiga is a taiga ecoregion located in northern Canada, stretching from Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories to Hudson Bay in eastern Nunavut. The region supports conifer forests to its northern edge, where the territory grades into tundra.