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Great Slave Lake [1] [a] is the second-largest lake in the Northwest Territories of 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.
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 ]
It covered parts of what are now the Great Bear Lake, Great Slave Lake and Lake Athabasca basins up to an elevation of 280 m (920 ft) [4] or 305 m (1,001 ft), [5] with a maximum surface area of 210,000 km 2 (81,000 sq mi) achieved 10,500 years ago. [1] At its greatest length of 1,100 km (680 mi), it was longer than any modern freshwater lake. [2] "
Great Bear Lake: 31,328 km 2 (12,096 sq mi) Northwest Territories 4 4 ... Lesser Slave Lake: 1,160 km 2 (450 sq mi) Alberta 44 43 Gods Lake: 1,151 km 2 (444 sq mi)
Great Bear Lake [2] [3] 31,328 km 2 (12,096 sq mi) 156 m (512 ft) ... Deline on Great Bear Lake Utsingi Point on Great Slave Lake Lac La Martre ...
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.
Great Slave Lake is slightly smaller, with an area of 28,568 km 2 (11,030 sq mi) and containing 2,088 km 3 (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 km 2 (3,000 sq mi). [ 15 ]
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 1,463 ft 2,234 km 3 536 cu mi Largest lake entirely within Canada, [20] and the largest lake partially within the Arctic Circle 9: Malawi Malawi Mozambique Tanzania: Fresh 29,600 km 2