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  2. Great Slave Lake 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), and the tenth-largest lake in the world by area.

  3. Aug 6, 2009 · Shallow, warm, muddy waters on the southern shore and in the tip of the North Arm, near Behchokö, provide rich habitat for goldeye, white suckers, and walleye . Great Slave Lake lies south of the treeline, within the northern boreal forest, and in the transitional space between woodlands and tundra.

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  4. May 16, 2024 · Great Slave Lake, lake, in southern Northwest Territories, Canada, near the Alberta border. It was named for the Slave Indians and has an area of 11,030 square miles (28,568 square km), which makes it the fifth largest lake in North America. It is some 300 miles (500 km) long and 30 to 140 miles.

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  5. Sep 14, 2020 · Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories X0E, Canada. It’s well worth making a trip to the Northwest Territories in Canada to pay a visit to Great Slave Lake. This massive body of water is the second-largest lake entirely within Canadian borders, the fifth-largest in North America, and the tenth-largest lake in the world by area.

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  6. Lake Name: Great Slave Lake: Country: Canada: Surface area: 26734.290: Maximum depth: 614.0: Average depth: 59.1: Lake type: Glacial: Length: 469.000: Width: 203.000: Catchment area: 995312.30: Altitude: 148.0: Volume: 1580.000: Inflows: Hay River, Slave River: Outflows: Mackenzie River: Shore length: 9814.16: Settlements

  7. Mar 3, 2021 · Geography. Frozen Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada. Great Slave Lake is one of Lake McConnell's remnants, a lake that existed about 8,300 years ago and covered what is now Great Slave Lake, Great Bear Lake, and Lake Athabasca. The lake formed over 10,000 years ago at the end of the Wisconsinan glaciation.

  8. Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories, is an isolated mining town built on gold and now sustained by diamonds—an outpost of civilization surrounded by a vast, austere landscape of...

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