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Great Slave Lake

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Great Slave Lake
A lake of southern Northwest Territories, Canada. The British fur trader Samuel Hearne (1745-1792) came upon the lake in 1771 while exploring for the Hudson's Bay Company.
Great Slave Lake
n
(Placename) 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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Noun1.Great Slave LakeGreat Slave Lake - a lake in the Northwest Territories in northwestern Canada; drained by the Mackenzie River
Northwest Territories - a large territory in northwestern Canada; part is now Nunavut


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Three Eagles was going away on a trip up the Mackenzie to the Great Slave Lake.
White Fang by London, Jack View in context
Lawrence near Montreal, and by other rivers and portages, to Lake Nipising, Lake Huron, Lake Superior, and thence, by several chains of great and small lakes, to Lake Winnipeg, Lake Athabasca, and the Great Slave Lake.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
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