Colville Lake
| Colville Lake | ||
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| Geographical location | Northwest Territories ( Canada ) | |
| Drain | to the Anderson River | |
| Places on the shore | Colville Lake | |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 10 ′ N , 126 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 245 m | |
| surface | 452 km² | |
Colville Lake is a lake in the Sahtu Region of the Northwest Territories of Canada .
The water area is 452 km², the total area including islands 455 km². The lake is located 100 km northwest of the Great Bear Lake . Its outflow at its northeast end leads to the Anderson River , which flows to the Beaufort Sea . The Colville Lake settlement is on the lake's southwestern shore.
The lake got its name from John Franklin during his second Arctic expedition from 1825 to 1827. He named it after Andrew Colville (1779-1856), the later governor of the Hudson's Bay Company .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Natural Resources Canada - The Atlas of Canada - Lakes ( Memento from January 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Gazetteer of the Northwest Territories . NWT Cultural Places Program, Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Center 2017, accessed January 16, 2018.