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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 ...
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. It is 469 km (291 mi) long and 20 to 203 km (12 to 126 mi) wide. [3]
Second largest lake in Manitoba. 29: Mweru Zambia Democratic Republic of the Congo: Fresh 5,120 km 2 1,980 sq mi 131 km 81 mi 27 m 89 ft 38 km 3 9.1 cu mi The second largest lake in the Congo's drainage basin, Tanganyika being the largest. 30: Nipigon Canada: Fresh 4,848 km 2 1,872 sq mi 116 km 72 mi 165 m 541 ft 266 km 3 64 cu mi
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 ]
World's second largest lake island. [11] 37: 227: Air Force Island: 1,720 660: Nunavut: 0: First written record of the island's existence was in 1948. [1] 38: 244: Flaherty Island: 1,585 612: Nunavut: 882: The largest of the Belcher Islands and the site of the southernmost community in Nunavut. [1] [3] 39: 248: Eglinton Island: 1,541 595 ...
The boreal forest of Canada is considered to be the largest intact forest on Earth, with around 300,000 square kilometres (120,000 sq mi) undisturbed by roads, cities or industry. [60] The Canadian Arctic tundra is the second-largest vegetation region in the country consisting of dwarf shrubs, sedges and grasses, mosses and lichens. [61]
Manicouagan Reservoir (also Lake Manicouagan / m æ n ɪ k w ɑː ɡ ən,-ɡ ɒ̃ /) is an annular lake in central Quebec, Canada, covering an area of 1,942 km 2 (750 sq mi). The lake island in its centre is known as René-Levasseur Island , and its highest point is Mount Babel .
This is a list of lakes of Alberta, Canada. Most of Alberta's lakes were formed during the last glaciation, about 12,000 years ago. There are many different types of lakes in Alberta, from glacial lakes in the Canadian Rockies to small shallow lakes in the prairies , brown water lakes in the northern boreal forest and muskeg , kettle holes and ...