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Lake Athabasca
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large glacial lake in northern Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada
Lake Athabasca is a large glacial lake located in northern Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada. It is significant as a major freshwater body in Canada's north and plays an important role in the region's geography and ecosystems.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lake
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Alberta
- Area
- 7850
- Elevation
- 213
- Image
- Lake Athabasca, Canada.jpg
- Width
- 50
- Length
- 283
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- outflows
- Slave River
- vertical depth
- 243
- volume as quantity
- 204000
- Commons category
- Lake Athabasca
- basin country
- Canada
- watershed area
- 274540
- native label
- aðapaskāw
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Encyclopedic overview
Lake Athabasca (/ˌæθəˈbæskə/ ATH-ə-BASK-ə; French: lac Athabasca; from Woods Cree: ᐊᖬᐸᐢᑳᐤ aðapaskāw, "[where] there are plants one after another") is in the north-west corner of Saskatchewan and the north-east corner of Alberta between 58° and 60° N in Canada. The lake is about 26% in Alberta and 74% in Saskatchewan.
The lake is fed by the Athabasca River and other rivers, and its water flows northward via the Slave River to the Mackenzie River system, eventually reaching the Arctic Ocean.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lake Athabasca” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.