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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.
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 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]
Great Salt Lake: Utah: 950 sq mi 2,460 km 2: natural salt [4] 9 Lake Oahe: North Dakota–South Dakota: 685 sq mi 1,774 km 2: man-made [5] 10 Lake Okeechobee: Florida: 662 sq mi 1,715 km 2: natural [6] 11 Lake Pontchartrain: Louisiana: 631 sq mi 1,634 km 2: natural brackish [7] 12 Lake Sakakawea: North Dakota: 520 sq mi 1,347 km 2: man-made 13 ...
Geographical features include Great Bear Lake, the largest lake entirely within Canada, [22] and Great Slave Lake, the deepest body of water in North America at 614 m (2,014 ft), as well as the Mackenzie River and the canyons of the Nahanni National Park Reserve, a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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 ...
Largest lake entirely within Canada, [29] and the largest lake partially within the Arctic Circle 7: Malawi Malawi Mozambique Tanzania: Fresh 29,500 km 2 11,400 sq mi 579 km 360 mi 706 m 2,316 ft 8,640 km 3 2,070 cu mi Has more species of fish than any other lake in the world. [21] 8: Great Slave Lake Canada: Fresh 27,200 km 2 10,500 sq mi 480 km
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).