Athabaska
Britishnoun
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a lake in W Canada, in NW Saskatchewan and NE Alberta. Area: about 7770 sq km (3000 sq miles)
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a river in W Canada, rising in the Rocky Mountains and flowing northeast to Lake Athabaska. Length: 1230 km (765 miles)
Example Sentences
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Officials opened up a field on the shore of Lake Athabaska, and hundreds of prospectors swarmed in to stake claims.
From Time Magazine Archive
Franz Josef Land, the Pole and the mouth of the Athabaska River in Alaska.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rainbow Lake pool may be larger than all of the reserves proven elsewhere in Alberta, outside the Athabaska tar sands.
From Time Magazine Archive
The company that thinks it can turn the trick is California's Richfield Oil Corp., which last week formally asked permission of the Canadian government to set off a nuclear charge just under the Athabaska sands.
From Time Magazine Archive
From this it appears that the great astronomer-explorer crossed the Rockies by Athabaska Pass and came down to what has since been known by the name of Boat Encampment in March, 1811.
From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)
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