Athabaska

British  

/ ˌæθəˈbæskə /

noun

1. a lake in W Canada, in NW Saskatchewan and NE Alberta. Area: about 7770 sq km (3000 sq miles)

2. a river in W Canada, rising in the Rocky Mountains and flowing northeast to Lake Athabaska. Length: 1230 km (765 miles)

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Example Sentences

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

If the Athabaska sands yield their treasure, an estimated 300 billion bbl. of crude can be freed in that region alone.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1898 he went to British Columbia and worked in the mills of the Slocan Star and the Athabaska, then got a good position in a mill at Ymir.

From Time Magazine Archive

This condition was in considerable contrast to the great spongy masses I had noted in the Tazin River basin, between Athabaska and Great Slave lakes, in 1914.

From The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Harper, Francis