Great Slave Lake

American  

noun

1. a lake in NW Canada, in the Northwest Territories. 11,172 sq. mi. (28,935 sq. km).

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Great Slave Lake British  

noun

1. a lake in NW Canada, in the Northwest Territories: drained by the Mackenzie River into the Arctic Ocean. Area: 28 440 sq km (10 980 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

On Saturday, the fire destroyed two cabins and a travel trailer near the shore of Great Slave Lake.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 27, 2023

In a social media post, the Territories fire service said a fire that had been threatening Hay River, a community of some 3,000 further south on Great Slave Lake, had stalled overnight.

From Reuters • Aug. 17, 2023

The Mackenzie is Canada’s longest river, running 1,100 miles in a northwesterly direction from Great Slave Lake to the Beaufort Sea.

From Scientific American • Apr. 24, 2023

The town is at the mouth of the Hay River where it flows into the Great Slave Lake and it’s essentially a miniature delta through which multiple river channels run.

From Seattle Times • May 12, 2022

In the next five days Mackenzie's canoes successfully descended the river to the Great Slave Lake, a distance of some two hundred and thirty-five miles.

From Adventurers of the Far North A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas by Leacock, Stephen