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Definition of Great slave lake
1. Noun. A lake in the Northwest Territories in northwestern Canada; drained by the Mackenzie River.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Great Slave Lake
Literary usage of Great slave lake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"A JOURNEY FROM CHESTERFIELD INLET TO great slave lake, 1898-9.» By DAVID T.
HANBURY. WITH the object in view of crossing and exploring that portion of the ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1888)
"The information regarding the forest-covered area on the Mackenzie River, north
of great slave lake, is very scanty, and it appears doubtful whether the ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1883)
"ON THE ATHABASCA DISTRICT OF Kiver, a southern affluent of the great slave lake,
the entire shore of that inland fresh-water sea up to and including the two ..."
4. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1859)
"The upper part of its course is obstructed by falls and rapids, after which it
flows N. through an alluvial district, and enters Great Slave lake by 2 ..."
5. Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River by George Back (1836)
"Eastern Extremity of great slave lake. — Discovery of the River supposed to lead
towards the ... great slave lake ..."
6. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"great slave lake (Fr. Lac de F Enclave), a large irregular sheet of water in a
district of the same name in the northwest ..."
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