Amadjuak Lake

Lake in Nunavut, Canada

64°55′N 071°00′W / 64.917°N 71.000°W / 64.917; -71.000 (Amadjuak Lake)Basin countriesCanadaSurface area3,115 km² (1,203 sq mi)Surface elevation113 m (371 ft)SettlementsuninhabitedReferences^[1]

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.^[2]

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.^[3]

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.^[4]

References

^ "Principal lakes, elevation and area, by province and territory". Statistics Canada. 2005-02-02. Retrieved 2015-03-11.
^ Jacobs, J. D., A. N. Headley, L. A. Maus, and W. N. Mode. 1997. "Climate and Vegetation of the Interior Lowlands of Southern Baffin Island: Long-Term Stability at the Low Arctic Limit". Arctic. 50, no. 2: 167.
^ "History of the Soper River". park.org. Retrieved 2008-01-19.
^ "Inuit Knowledge of the Qikiqtaaluk Caribou". itk.ca. Archived from the original on 2007-08-13. Retrieved 2008-01-19.