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Great Slave Lake was put on European maps during the emergence of the fur trade towards the northwest from Hudson Bay in the mid 18th century. The name 'Great Slave' came from the English-language translation of the Cree exonym , Awokanek ( Slavey ), which they called the Dene Tha.
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.
Map guide for lists of lakes of Canada. Canada's largest lakes This is a list ... Great Slave Lake: 28,568 km 2 (11,030 sq mi) 156 m (512 ft) 614 m (2,014 ft)
Fort Reliance was originally built in 1833 by George Back during the Arctic Land Expedition to the Arctic Ocean via the Back River.The expedition, partly scientific and partly searching for the missing John Ross, used Fort Reliance as a winter camp.
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]
Fort Resolution (Denı́nu Kų́ę́ (pronounced "deh-nih-noo-kwenh") "moose island place") is a hamlet [6] in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.The community is situated at the mouth of the Slave River, on the shores of Great Slave Lake, and at the end of the Fort Resolution Highway (Highway 6).
The Hay River Museum Beach at Hay River on the shores of Great Slave Lake. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Hay River had a population of 3,169 living in 1,274 of its 1,541 total private dwellings, a change of -10.2% from its 2016 population of 3,528.
Fort Providence (Slave: Zhahti Koe, Zhahti Kue, lit. 'mission house' [pronunciation?]) is a hamlet in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.Located west of Great Slave Lake, it has all-weather road connections by way of the Yellowknife Highway (Great Slave Highway) branch off the Mackenzie Highway, and the Deh Cho Bridge opened November 30, 2012, near Fort Providence over ...