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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.
Slavey or just Slave is a translation of Awokanak, [2] the name given to Dene by the Cree "who sometimes raided and enslaved their less aggressive northern neighbors []". [3] [4] [5] The names of the Slave River, Lesser Slave River, Great Slave Lake, and Lesser Slave Lake all derive from this Cree name.
The Slave River is a Canadian river that flows from the confluence of the Rivière des Rochers and Peace River in northeastern Alberta and runs into Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. The river's name is thought to derive from the name for the Slavey group of the Dene First Nations, Deh Gah Gotʼine, in the Athabaskan languages. [1]
Lesser Slave Lake: 1,160 km 2 (450 sq mi) Alberta 44 43 Gods Lake: 1,151 km 2 (444 sq mi) Manitoba 45 not in top 50 Lake St. Clair: 1,114 km 2 (430 sq mi) Ontario [8] 694 km 2 (268 sq mi), USA 420 km 2 (160 sq mi) 46 44 Aberdeen Lake: 1,100 km 2 (420 sq mi) Nunavut 47 45 Bras d'Or Lake: 1,099 km 2 (424 sq mi) Nova Scotia (tidal lake) 48 46
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 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]
It is a settlement corporation in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories. The community is situated at the mouth of the Slave River, on the shore of Great Slave Lake, Deninu K'ue or Dene Nu Kwen are/were called Chipewyan (Denesuline) and Yellowknives, which came to Fort Resolution to trade their furs. [8]
English: Utsingi Point, East arm of Great Slave Lake, Canada. This was in the eastern edge of the proposed Thaydene Nene National Park Reserve, but is outside the final approved park boundary. This was in the eastern edge of the proposed Thaydene Nene National Park Reserve, but is outside the final approved park boundary.