- "Great Slave Lake is actually a very terrible name, unless you're a proponent of slavery," says Dëneze Nakehk'o, a Northwest Territories educator and founding...
- The remainder of Great Slave Lake was included in Treaty 11, which was signed in 1921 at Fort Providence by the Tlicho and other Dene groups from the region.
- First Nations peoples were the first to settle around Great Slave Lake after the glacial ice retreated.
- The East Arm of Great Slave Lake is a largely undiscovered vast and magnificent wilderness.
- The size of Great Slave Lake (28,568 km²) is almost the same as Belgium's (30,510 km²). The lake's north shore is where the rocks of 2.7 billion years could be found.
- The winters are long and cold, with an average temperature in January of −16 °F (−27 °C) at Yellowknife, on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake.
- Due to the lake’s varying water depths and the climate and plant life in the area, there are many chances for excellent birdwatching on Great Slave Lake.
- The first Europeans came to the Great Slave Lake area during the emergence of the fur trade in the mid-18th century.
- Great Slave Lake, blanketed in ice for two-thirds of the year, stands as North America's fifth largest lake and the world's tenth.
- Great Slave Lake is home to a diverse range of wildlife, including moose, caribou, black bears, and wolves.
Büyük Esir Gölü
Göl
Genel bilgiler
Büyük Esir Gölü (Fransızca: Grand lac des Esclaves, İngilizce: Great Slave Lake) Kanada'nın Kuzeybatı Toprakları'nda Mackenzie bölgesinde yer alır.
Adını Slave (esir anlamına gelir) yerlilerinden almıştır. Suları çok berrak ve derindir. En derin yeri 600 metreyi geçer. Üzerinde birçok ada bulunur.
Kısa bilgiler
- Yüzölçümü:28.568 km²
- En derin noktası:614 m
- Şehirler:Yellowknife, Hay River, Behchokǫ̀
- Kolu: