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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 caught fire and sank on Great Slave Lake and was replaced by the Speed II which ironically later suffered the same fate. Speed II: Gasoline schooner (14 m (45 ft) long) operated by Northern Traders Company on Great Slave Lake c. 1927, and later by Northern Waterways Limited on Great Bear Lake 1932–1933. It caught fire and sank on Great ...
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 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 [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 ...
Under the auspices of the U.S. Marshals, 493 people, ranging from centenarian Old Sampson to 15-month-old Margarette, were to be sold from four plantations in Louisiana by auction at the St. Louis Exchange in New Orleans on Saturday, March 20, 1850 (The New Orleans Crescent, March 2, 1850, page 3); according to historian Damian Alan Pargas, there was a subsequent 1852 sale of property owned by ...
Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College is located just south of Wolflake at Bear Lake in Noble County, Indiana. Merry Lea is the largest privately held land reserve in the state of Indiana. The center serves as a field laboratory for students at Goshen College who are studying ecology, environmental education and agroecology.