Lake Athabasca
large glacial lake in northern Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada
Facts
17 properties- Instance of
- lake
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 59.267°, -109.450°
- Area
- +7850[21]
- Described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[14][15][16][17]
- Drainage basin
- Mackenzie River basin[26]
- Elevation above sea level
- +213[20]
- Inflows
- Athabasca River, Fond du Lac River, Grease River, Harrison River, MacFarlane River, William River, Oldman River[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
- Length
- +283[19]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Saskatchewan, Alberta[2][3]
- Native label
- aðapaskāw[18]
- Outflows
- Slave River[12]
- Vertical depth
- +243[25]
- Volume as quantity
- +204000[24]
- Watershed area
- +274540[23]
- Width
- +50[22]
🏷️ Also known as
en Athabasca
en Lake Athabasca
ar بحيرة أثاباسكا
da Athabascasøen
de Lake Athabasca
de Athabaskasee
de Athabascasee
el Λίμνη Αθαμπάσκα
es Lago Athabasca
es Athabasca
fa دریاچه آتاباسکا
fi Athabascajärvi
fi Lake Athabasca
fr Lac Athabasca
he אגם אתבסקה
hi अथाबास्का झील
hu Atabaszk-tó
hu Atapaszka-tó
id Danau Athabasca
it Lago Athabasca
🔖 Identifiers · 19
- VIAF cluster ID
- 235155086
- Library of Congress authority ID
- sh85009099
- GND ID
- 4283934-8
- Canadian Encyclopedia article ID
- lake-athabasca
- Encyclopedia of China (Second Edition) ID
- 190670
- Freebase ID
- /m/024gd3
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- llac-athabasca
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
- Athabasca_-_innsjø_i_Canada, Lake_Athabasca
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
- 1836864
Show all 19 identifiers +7
- ILEC World Lake Database ID
- NAM-270
- IdRef ID
- 083922555
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007294942505171
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
- 3872056
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 2791738
- Topic's main category
- Category:Lake Athabasca
- Yale LUX ID
- place/13ca359b-6f30-479d-9257-2e7f23cc959c
🔗 Connections
Described by source 2
Inflows 2
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Named after 2
← Mouth of the watercourse 2
← Origin of the watercourse 2
Basin country 1
Country 1
Instance of 1
Outflows 1
← Lake on watercourse 1
← Located in or next to body of water 1
← Lowest point 1
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Summary
Lake Athabasca is a lake[1].
Body
Cultural Significance
Things named for Lake Athabasca include Athabasca District[27], a district of the Northwest Territories[28], in Canada[29], founded in 1882[30] and athabascaite[31], a mineral species[32].
Why It Matters
Entities named for it include Athabasca District[27], a district of the Northwest Territories[28], in Canada[29], founded in 1882[30] and athabascaite[31], a mineral species[32].