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Article: Arctic giant.(Great Bear Lake)
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- Canada and the World Backgrounder
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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3 Great Bear Lake is called Sahtu in the Slavey language. At 31,153 [km.sup.2] it is the largest lake completely within Canada. Lake Superior and Huron are bigger, but are only partly in Canada. Great Bear Lake is located on the Arctic Circle the North west Territories.
The lake is fed by numerous rivers but has a single outflow to the north--the Great Bear River, which is a tributary of the Mackenzie River.
The lake is ice-covered from late November through to July.
During the brief summer, anglers are attracted from many parts of the world to test their skills against the lake trout. But, the cost of such an adventure is high: upwards of ...