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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 ]
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. It is 469 km (291 mi) long and 20 to 203 km (12 to 126 mi) wide. [3]
This is a partial list of lakes of Canada. Canada has an extremely large number of lakes, with the number of lakes larger than three square kilometres being estimated at close to 31,752 by the Atlas of Canada. Of these, 561 lakes have a surface area larger than 100 km 2, [1] including four of the Great Lakes. Almost 9% (891,163 square ...
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)
Location of Port Radium, Great Bear Lake, Canada Aerial view of Eldorado Mining and Refining minesite, Port Radium, 1946. During a field trip along the east arm of Great Bear Lake in August 1900, James McIntosh Bell of the Geological Survey of Canada noted evidences of iron, copper, uranium and cobalt in the vicinity of Echo Bay.
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
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 Bear River hosts a number of aquatic species, with some of the most notable being Lake trout and Lake whitefish.Other animals regularly found in the Great Bear River include various fish species such as Arctic grayling, Burbot, Cisco (lake herring), Northern Pike, Nelma (inconnu), Walleye, Fourhorn sculpin, Slimy sculpin, Round whitefish, Longnose sucker, Sphaeriidae molluscs, and ...
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