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Lake Athabasca

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Coordinates: 59°16′00″N 109°27′00″W[2]
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Lake Athabasca

Ice breakup on Lake Athabasca (June 9, 2002)[1]
Lake Athabasca is located in SaskatchewanLake AthabascaLake Athabasca
Location in Saskatchewan
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Location
Northern Saskatchewan Administration District, Saskatchewan
Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Alberta
Coordinates 59°16′00″N 109°27′00″W[2]
Lake type Glacial
Part of Mackenzie River drainage basin
Primary inflows
Athabasca RiverWilliam RiverMacFarlane RiverColin RiverFond du Lac River
Primary outflows Rivière des Rochers, which meets with the Peace to form the Slave
Catchment area 271,000 km2 (105,000 sq mi)[3]
Basin countries Canada
Max. length 283 km (176 mi)
Max. width 50 km (31 mi)
Surface area 7,849 km2 (3,031 sq mi)[4]
Average depth 20 m (66 ft)[5]
Max. depth 124 m (407 ft)[5]
Water volume 204 km3 (49 cu mi)
Shore length1 ≈2,140 km (1,330 mi)[5]
Surface elevation 213 m (699 ft)[4]
Settlements
Fort ChipewyanUranium CityCamsell PortageFond du Lac
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 about 26% in Alberta and 74% in Saskatchewan.[8][9]

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.