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 NATIONAL PARKS NORTHWEST TERRITORIES CANADA |
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National Parks and Lakes
The Northwest
Territories is home to some of Canada’s finest national parks, inclu-
ding two World
Heritage Sites, Nahanni and Wood Buffalo. On the northern edge of North America two
wilder-
ness parks protect the calving grounds of the caribou - Tuktut Nogait -
and the range of the mysterious, prehistoric, muskox.
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GREAT SLAVE LAKE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
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 Great Slave Lake is the second largest
lake in the Northwest Territories, behind
Great Bear Lake, and the deepest lake in North
America at 614 metres (2,015 ft.). It is 480
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GREAT BEAR LAKE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
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Great Bear Lake (Slavey: Sahtu, French: Grand lac de l'Ours)
is the largest lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada and the fourth
largest in North America. The lake is situated on the Arctic Circle between 65 and 67 degrees. | It covers an area of 28,400 square kilometres in the southern part
of the territory. Its volume is 2,090 cubic kilometres. The lake was
named for the Slavey North American Indians. |
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BANKS ISLAND NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
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Banks Island (75°15’N
121°30'W) is one of the
Canadian Arctic islands situated in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories,
Canada. It is separated from Victoria Island to its east by the Prince of Wales Strait
and from the mainland by Amundsen Gulf to its south. The Beaufort Sea | lies to its west and to the northeast, McClure Strait
separates the
island from Prince Patrick
Island and Melville Island. |
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NATIONAL PARKS LAKES AND ISLANDS
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Nahanni National Park
