| Lake Athabasca | |
|---|---|
 Ice breakup on Lake Athabasca (June 9, 2002)[1] | |
  Lake Athabasca Location in Saskatchewan  Lake Athabasca Lake Athabasca (Canada) | |
 Lake Athabasca (August 24, 2002)[3] | |
| Location |
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| Coordinates | 59°22′1″N 108°0′4″W / 59.36694°N 108.00111°W[2] |
| Lake type | Glacial |
| Part of | Mackenzie River drainage basin |
| Primary inflows |
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| Primary outflows | Rivière des Rochers, which meets with the Peace to form the Slave |
| Catchment area | 271,000 km2 (105,000 sq mi)[4] |
| Basin countries | Canada |
| Max. length | 283 km (176 mi) |
| Max. width | 50 km (31 mi) |
| Surface area | 7,850 km2 (3,030 sq mi)[5] |
| Average depth | 26 m (85 ft) |
| Max. depth | 124 m (407 ft) |
| Water volume | 204 km3 (49 cu mi) |
| Shore length1 | ≈1,900 km (1,200 mi) |
| Surface elevation | 213 m (699 ft) |
| Settlements | |
| References | [5] |
| 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. | |
Lake Athabasca (/ˌæθəˈbæskə/ ATH-ə-BASK-ə; French: lac Athabasca; from Woods Cree: ᐊᖬᐸᐢᑳᐤ[6] aðapaskāw, "[where] there are plants one after another")[7] 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 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.
- ^ "Great Slave Lake and Lake Athabasca, Canada (Note: Lake Athabasca during ice-break-up)". June 9, 2002. Retrieved January 25, 2013.
- ^ "Lake Athabasca". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada.
- ^ "Burn Scars in Saskatchewan, Canada (Note: Dark to light rust coloured areas are burn scars from forest fires)". August 24, 2002. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
- ^ Rasouli, K.; Hernández-Henríquez, M.A.; Déry, S.J. (May 2, 2013). "Streamflow input to Lake Athabasca, Canada" (PDF). Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 17 (5): 1681–1691. Bibcode:2013HESS...17.1681R. doi:10.5194/hess-17-1681-2013.
- ^ a b Atlas of Canada (April 5, 2004). "Lakes of Canada". Natural Resources Canada. Archived from the original on April 10, 2007. Retrieved May 1, 2007.
- ^ in Cree syllabics
- ^ Bright, William (2004). Native American Place Names of the United States. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. p. 52. ISBN 0-8061-3576-X. OCLC 53019644.