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Amadjuak Lake is a lake in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. Along with Nettilling Lake, it is located in south-central Baffin Island's Great Plain of the Koukdjuak. It is 154 km (96 mi) south of Burwash Bay. The closest community is Iqaluit.




Geography


The lake is 3,115 km2 (1,203 sq mi) in size, and sits at an elevation of 113 m (371 ft).
This lower-lying area only emerged 4,500 years ago (recently in geological terms) from beneath the waters of Foxe Basin. Amadjuak Lake is the second largest lake on Baffin Island (after Nettilling Lake) and third-largest in Nunavut.




Ethnography


The lake was a gathering place for Inuit from Kimmirut, Soper River Valley, Pangnirtung, Cape Dorset, and Frobisher Bay.




Fauna


Amadjuak Lake is also notable as a summer feeding grounds, calving grounds, and migration route for the Southern Qikiqtaaluk herd of Barren-ground caribou.




See also


List of lakes of Nunavut
List of lakes of Canada




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• 1 E+9 m²
• Amadjuak Lake
• Nettilling Lake
• Amadjuak
• List of lakes of Canada
• List of lakes of Nunavut
• List of lakes by area
• Angikuni Lake
• Kasba Lake
• Baffin Island
• List of communities in Nunavut