Peace River, which backs up through Rivière des Rochers during flooding, Athabasca River, William River, MacFarlane River, Colin River, Fond du Lac River,
Primary outflows
Rivière des Rochers that 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
Fort Chipewyan, Uranium City, Camsell Portage, Fond du Lac
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.
^ abAtlas 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.
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