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Great Slave Lake [1] [a] is the second-largest lake in the Northwest Territories, Canada (after Great Bear Lake), the deepest lake in North America at 614 m (2,014 ft), [2] and the tenth-largest lake in the world by area.
Therefore, mean depth figures are not available for many deep lakes in remote locations. [9] The average lake on Earth has the mean depth 41.8 meters (137.14 feet) [9] The Caspian Sea ranks much further down the list on mean depth, as it has a large continental shelf (significantly larger than the oceanic basin that contains its greatest depths).
Thaidene Nene National Park Reserve (from the Dene, this Chipewyan name means land of our ancestors [1]) is a national park in the vicinity of the east arm of Great Slave Lake, located on the northern edge of the boreal forest of Canada in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories. [2]
Great Slave Lake is slightly smaller, with an area of 28,568 square kilometres (11,030 sq mi) and containing 2,088 cubic kilometres (501 cu mi) of water, although it is significantly deeper than Great Bear. [18] The third major lake, Athabasca, is less than a third that size with an area of 7,800 square kilometres (3,000 sq mi). [15]
Yellowknife [a] is the capital, largest community, and the only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada.It is on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake, about 400 km (250 mi) south of the Arctic Circle, on the west side of Yellowknife Bay near the outlet of the Yellowknife River.
It travels 1,231 km (765 mi) before draining into the Peace-Athabasca Delta near Lake Athabasca south of Fort Chipewyan. From there, its waters flow north as Rivière des Rochers, then join the Peace River to form the Slave River, which empties into the Great Slave Lake and discharges through the Mackenzie River system into the Arctic Ocean.
Pine Point is an abandoned locality that formerly held town status near the south shore of Great Slave Lake between the towns of Hay River and Fort Resolution in the Northwest Territories of Canada. It was built to serve the work force at the Pine Point Mine, an open-pit mine that produced lead and zinc ores. The town's population peaked at ...
Daisy Lake is a lake in the Arctic Ocean and Great Slave Lake drainage basins in South Slave Region, Northwest Territories, Canada. [1]The lake is about 13.3 kilometres (8 mi) long and 2.3 kilometres (1 mi) wide, lies at an elevation of 356 metres (1,168 ft), and is located about 30 kilometres (19 mi) southeast of the settlement of Fort Reliance on McLeod Bay, the large easternmost bay of ...