Mackenzie River, the Glossary

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1. 201 relations: Acre-foot, Alaska, Alberta, Alexander Mackenzie (explorer), Anderson River (Northwest Territories), Arctic Circle, Arctic Ocean, Arctic Red River, Aspen, Athabasca oil sands, Athabasca River, Back River (Nunavut), Bald eagle, BC Hydro, Beaufort Sea, Beluga whale, Bering Strait, Betula nana, Boats of the Mackenzie River watershed, Bog, Boreal forest of Canada, Braided river, British Columbia, British Columbia Interior, Canada, Canadian Archaeological Association, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian National Railway, Canadian Shield, Canol Heritage Trail, Canol Project, Carbon, Churchill River (Hudson Bay), Cochrane River (Canada), Columbia River, Continental Divide of the Americas, Coppermine River, Cultural landscape, Deh Cho Bridge, Dempster Highway, Drainage basin, Edmonton, Encyclopædia Britannica, Endemism, Fairbanks, Alaska, Finlay River, Fish, Floodplain, Fond du Lac River (Saskatchewan), Fort Good Hope, ... Expand index (151 more) »

2. Rivers of the Northwest Territories

The acre-foot is a non-SI unit of volume equal to about commonly used in the United States in reference to large-scale water resources, such as reservoirs, aqueducts, canals, sewer flow capacity, irrigation water, and river flows.

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Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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Alberta

Alberta is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Alexander Mackenzie (explorer)

Sir Alexander Mackenzie (– 12 March 1820) was a Scottish explorer and fur trader known for accomplishing the first crossing of North America by a European in 1793.

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Anderson River (Northwest Territories)

The Anderson River (Inuvialuktun: Kuuk, river) is in the Northwest Territories in northern Canada. Mackenzie River and Anderson River (Northwest Territories) are rivers of the Northwest Territories.

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Arctic Circle

The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles, and the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth at about 66° 34' N. Its southern equivalent is the Antarctic Circle.

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Arctic Ocean

The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five oceanic divisions.

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Arctic Red River

The Arctic Red River is a tributary to the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Mackenzie River and Arctic Red River are rivers of the Northwest Territories.

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Aspen

Aspen is a common name for certain tree species; some, but not all, are classified by botanists in the section ''Populus'', of the Populus genus.

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Athabasca oil sands

The Athabasca oil sands, also known as the Athabasca tar sands, are large deposits of bitumen, a heavy and viscous form of petroleum, located in northeastern Alberta, Canada.

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Athabasca River

The Athabasca River (French: Rivière Athabasca) is a river in Alberta, Canada, which originates at the Columbia Icefield in Jasper National Park and flows more than before emptying into Lake Athabasca.

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Back River (Nunavut)

The Back River, formerly Backs River (Dogrib: Thlewechodyeth, Inuktitut: Haningayok, or Great Fish River), is the 20th longest Canadian river and is located in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Mackenzie River and Back River (Nunavut) are rivers of the Northwest Territories.

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Bald eagle

The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is a bird of prey found in North America.

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BC Hydro

The British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority, operating as BC Hydro, is a Canadian electric utility in the province of British Columbia.

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Beaufort Sea

The Beaufort Sea (Mer de Beaufort) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located north of the Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Alaska, and west of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

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Beluga whale

The beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is an Arctic and sub-Arctic cetacean.

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Bering Strait

The Bering Strait (Beringov proliv) is a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska.

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Betula nana

Betula nana, the dwarf birch, is a species of birch in the family Betulaceae, found mainly in the tundra of the Arctic region.

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Boats of the Mackenzie River watershed

The Mackenzie River in Canada's Northwest Territories is a historic waterway, used for centuries by Indigenous peoples, specifically the Dene, as a travel and hunting corridor.

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Bog

A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials often mosses, typically sphagnum moss.

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Boreal forest of Canada

Canada's boreal forest is a vast region comprising about one third of the circumpolar boreal forest that rings the Northern Hemisphere, mostly north of the 50th parallel.

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Braided river

A braided river (also called braided channel or braided stream) consists of a network of river channels separated by small, often temporary, islands called braid bars or, in British English usage, aits or eyots.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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British Columbia Interior

The British Columbia Interior, popularly referred to as the BC Interior or simply the Interior, is a geographic region of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Canadian Archaeological Association

The Canadian Archeological Association (CAA) is the primary archaeological organization in Canada.

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television.

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Canadian National Railway

The Canadian National Railway Company (Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.

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Canadian Shield

The Canadian Shield (Bouclier canadien), also called the Laurentian Shield or the Laurentian Plateau, is a geologic shield, a large area of exposed Precambrian igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks.

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Canol Heritage Trail

The Canol Heritage Trail is a trail running from Norman Wells, Northwest Territories, through the Mackenzie Mountains, to the Yukon border.

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Canol Project

The Canol Project was constructed during World War II to ensure a supply of oil for the defense of Alaska and the North American west coast.

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Carbon

Carbon is a chemical element; it has symbol C and atomic number 6.

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Churchill River (Hudson Bay)

The Churchill River is a major river in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada.

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Cochrane River (Canada)

The Cochrane River is a river in Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

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Columbia River

The Columbia River (Upper Chinook: or; Sahaptin: Nch’i-Wàna or Nchi wana; Sinixt dialect swah'netk'qhu) is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.

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Continental Divide of the Americas

The Continental Divide of the Americas (also known as the Great Divide, the Western Divide or simply the Continental Divide) is the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas.

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Coppermine River

The Coppermine River is a river in the North Slave and Kitikmeot regions of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Canada. Mackenzie River and Coppermine River are rivers of the Northwest Territories.

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Cultural landscape

Cultural landscape is a term used in the fields of geography, ecology, and heritage studies, to describe a symbiosis of human activity and environment.

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Deh Cho Bridge

The Deh Cho Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge across a span of the Mackenzie River on the Yellowknife Highway (Highway 3) near Fort Providence, Northwest Territories.

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Dempster Highway

The Dempster Highway, also referred to as Yukon Highway 5 and Northwest Territories Highway 8, is a highway in Canada that connects the Klondike Highway in Yukon to Inuvik, Northwest Territories on the Mackenzie River delta.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.

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Edmonton

Edmonton is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Fairbanks, Alaska

Fairbanks is a home rule city and the borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States.

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Finlay River

The Finlay River is a 402 km long river in north-central British Columbia flowing north and thence south from Thutade Lake in the Omineca Mountains to Williston Lake, the impounded waters of the Peace River formed by the completion of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam in 1968.

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Fish

A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.

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Floodplain

A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river.

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Fond du Lac River (Saskatchewan)

The Fond du Lac River is one of the upper branches of the Mackenzie River system, draining into the Arctic Ocean, located in northern Saskatchewan, Canada.

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Fort Good Hope

Fort Good Hope (formerly Fort Hope, Fort Charles, also now known as the Charter Community of K'asho Got'ine), is a charter community in the Sahtu Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories

Fort McPherson (Gwich'in: Teetł'it Zheh, at the head of the waters) is a hamlet located in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Fort Providence

Fort Providence (lit) is a hamlet in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Fort Resolution

Fort Resolution (Denı́nu Kų́ę́ (pronounced "deh-nih-noo-kwenh") "moose island place") is a hamlet in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Fort Simpson

Fort Simpson (Slavey language: Łı́ı́dlı̨ı̨ Kų́ę́ "place where rivers come together") is a village, the only one in the entire territory, in the Dehcho Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Franklin Mountains (Northwest Territories)

The Franklin Mountains of the Northwest Territories are a range of low peaks that stretch along the east bank of the Mackenzie River from 64 to 66 degrees of latitude.

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Fraser River

The Fraser River is the longest river within British Columbia, Canada, rising at Fraser Pass near Blackrock Mountain in the Rocky Mountains and flowing for, into the Strait of Georgia just south of the City of Vancouver.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Geological Survey of Canada

The Geological Survey of Canada (GSC; Commission géologique du Canada, CGC) is a Canadian federal government agency responsible for performing geological surveys of the country developing Canada's natural resources and protecting the environment.

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Glacial lake outburst flood

A glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) is a type of outburst flood caused by the failure of a dam containing a glacial lake.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.

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Great Bear Lake

Great Bear Lake (Sahtú; Grand lac de l'Ours) is a lake in the boreal forest of Canada.

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Great Bear River

The Great Bear River, which drains the Great Bear Lake westward through marshes into the Mackenzie River, forms an important transportation link during its four ice-free months. Mackenzie River and Great Bear River are Physiographic provinces, Physiographic sections and rivers of the Northwest Territories.

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Great Lakes

The Great Lakes (Grands Lacs), also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the east-central interior of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River.

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Great Slave Lake

Great Slave Lake is the second-largest lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada (after Great Bear Lake), the deepest lake in North America at, and the tenth-largest lake in the world by area.

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Gwichʼin

The Gwichʼin (or Kutchin or Loucheux) are an Athabaskan-speaking First Nations people of Canada and an Alaska Native people.

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Gwichʼin language

The Gwichʼin language (Dinju Zhuh Kʼyuu) belongs to the Athabaskan language family and is spoken by the Gwich'in First Nation (Canada) / Alaska Native People (United States).

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Hay River (Canada)

The Hay River (South Slavey) is a large river in northern Alberta and southern Northwest Territories, Canada. Mackenzie River and Hay River (Canada) are rivers of the Northwest Territories.

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Hay River, Northwest Territories

Hay River (South Slavey: Xátł’odehchee), known as "the Hub of the North", is a town in the Northwest Territories, Canada, located on the south shore of Great Slave Lake, at the mouth of the Hay River.

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Horn River

The Horn River is a river in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Mackenzie River and Horn River are rivers of the Northwest Territories.

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Horton River (Canada)

The Horton River is a river in Inuvik and Sahtu Regions, Northwest Territories and Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. Mackenzie River and Horton River (Canada) are rivers of the Northwest Territories.

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Hudson Bay

Hudson Bay, sometimes called Hudson's Bay (usually historically), is a large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada with a surface area of.

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Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is an American and Canadian-based retail business group.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power).

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Ice age

An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.

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Ice bridge

An ice bridge is a frozen natural structure formed over seas, bays, rivers or lake surfaces.

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Ice jam

Ice jams occur when a topographic feature of the river causes floating river ice to accumulate and impede further progress downstream with the river current.

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Ice road

An ice road or ice bridge is a human-made structure that runs on a frozen water surface (a river, a lake or a sea water expanse).

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Imperial Oil

Imperial Oil Limited is a Canadian petroleum company.

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Indigenous peoples in Canada

Indigenous peoples in Canada (Peuples autochtones au Canada, also known as Aboriginals) are the Indigenous peoples within the boundaries of Canada.

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Inuvialuit

The Inuvialuit (sing. Inuvialuk; the real people) or Western Canadian Inuit are Inuit who live in the western Canadian Arctic region.

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Inuvialuktun

Inuvialuktun (part of Western Canadian Inuit / Inuktitut / Inuktut / Inuktun) comprises several Inuit language varieties spoken in the northern Northwest Territories by Canadian Inuit who call themselves Inuvialuit.

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Inuvik

Inuvik (place of man) is the only town in the Inuvik Region, and the third largest community in Canada's Northwest Territories.

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Inuvik Region

The Inuvik Region or Beaufort Delta Region is one of five administrative regions in the Northwest Territories of Canada.

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Jasper National Park

Jasper National Park, in Alberta, Canada, is the largest national park within Alberta's Rocky Mountains, spanning.

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Jean Marie River

Jean Marie River (Slavey language: Tthek'éhdélį or Tthek'edeli "water flowing over clay") is a "Designated Authority" in the Dehcho Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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John Franklin

Sir John Franklin (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator.

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John Richardson (naturalist)

Sir John Richardson FRS FRSE (5 November 1787 – 5 June 1865) was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and Arctic explorer.

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Kakisa River

The Kakisa River is a major tributary of the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Mackenzie River and Kakisa River are rivers of the Northwest Territories.

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Keele River

The Keele River is a tributary of the Mackenzie River, about long, in the western part of the Canadian Northwest Territories. Mackenzie River and Keele River are rivers of the Northwest Territories.

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Klondike Gold Rush

The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of Yukon, in north-western Canada, between 1896 and 1899.

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Lake Agassiz

Lake Agassiz was a large proglacial lake that existed in central North America during the late Pleistocene, fed by meltwater from the retreating Laurentide Ice Sheet at the end of the last glacial period.

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Lake Athabasca

Lake Athabasca (French: lac Athabasca; from Woods Cree: ᐊᖬᐸᐢᑳᐤ aðapaskāw, " there are plants one after another") is in the north-west corner of Saskatchewan and the north-east corner of Alberta between 58° and 60° N in Canada.

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Lake McConnell

Lake McConnell was a very large proglacial lake that existed in what is now Canada from 11,800 to 8,300 years ago.

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Lake whitefish

The lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) is a species of freshwater whitefish from North America.

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Last Glacial Maximum

The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), also referred to as the Last Glacial Coldest Period, was the most recent time during the Last Glacial Period where ice sheets were at their greatest extent 26,000 and 20,000 years ago.

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Laurentide ice sheet

The Laurentide ice sheet was a massive sheet of ice that covered millions of square miles, including most of Canada and a large portion of the Northern United States, multiple times during the Quaternary glacial epochs, from 2.58 million years ago to the present.

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Lead

Lead is a chemical element; it has symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.

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Lena (river)

The Lena is a river in the Russian Far East, and is the easternmost of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean (the other two being the Ob and the Yenisey). The Lena is the eleventh-longest river in the world, and the longest river entirely within Russia, with a length of and a drainage basin of.

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Liard River

The Liard River of the North American boreal forest flows through Yukon, British Columbia and the Northwest Territories, Canada. Mackenzie River and Liard River are rivers of Yukon and rivers of the Northwest Territories.

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List of river systems by length

This is a list of the longest rivers on Earth.

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List of rivers of Canada

The list of rivers of Canada is organized by drainage basin and province.

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List of rivers of the Northwest Territories

This is a list of rivers that are in whole or partly in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Mackenzie River and list of rivers of the Northwest Territories are rivers of the Northwest Territories.

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Lockhart River (Northwest Territories)

The Lockhart River is a river in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Mackenzie River and Lockhart River (Northwest Territories) are rivers of the Northwest Territories.

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Log jam

A log jam is a naturally occurring phenomenon characterized by a dense accumulation of tree trunks and pieces of large wood across a vast section of a river, stream, or lake.

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Mackenzie Mountains

The Mackenzie Mountains are a Canadian mountain range forming part of the Yukon-Northwest Territories boundary between the Liard and Peel rivers.

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Mackenzie Northern Railway

The Mackenzie Northern Railway is a Canadian railway operating in Alberta and the Northwest Territories.

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Mackenzie River expedition

The Mackenzie River expedition of 1825–1827 was the second of three Arctic expeditions led by explorer John Franklin and organized by the Royal Navy.

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Mackenzie Valley Pipeline

The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline, also called the Mackenzie River Pipeline, was a proposed project to transport natural gas from the Beaufort Sea through Canada's Northwest Territories to tie into gas pipelines in northern Alberta.

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Main stem

In hydrology, a mainstem (or trunk) is "the primary downstream segment of a river, as contrasted to its tributaries".

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Marine Transportation Services

Marine Transportation Services (MTS) formerly Northern Transportation Company Limited (NTCL) is a marine transportation company operating primarily in the Mackenzie River watershed of the Northwest Territories and northern Alberta, and the Arctic Ocean using a fleet of diesel tug boats and shallow-draft barges.

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Methane clathrate

Methane clathrate (CH4·5.75H2O) or (4CH4·23H2O), also called methane hydrate, hydromethane, methane ice, fire ice, natural gas hydrate, or gas hydrate, is a solid clathrate compound (more specifically, a clathrate hydrate) in which a large amount of methane is trapped within a crystal structure of water, forming a solid similar to ice.

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Michif

Michif (also Mitchif, Mechif, Michif-Cree, Métif, Métchif, French Cree) is one of the languages of the Métis people of Canada and the United States, who are the descendants of First Nations (mainly Cree, Nakota, and Ojibwe) and fur trade workers of white ancestry (mainly French).

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Minnow

Minnow is the common name for a number of species of small freshwater fish, belonging to several genera of the family Cyprinidae and in particular the subfamily Leuciscinae.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the primary river and second-longest river of the largest drainage basin in the United States.

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Mountain River (Northwest Territories)

The Mountain River is a tributary of the Mackenzie River in Canada's Northwest Territories. Mackenzie River and Mountain River (Northwest Territories) are rivers of the Northwest Territories.

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Muskeg

Muskeg (maskīk; fondrière de mousse, lit. moss bog) is a peat-forming ecosystem found in several northern climates, most commonly in Arctic and boreal areas.

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Muskrat

The muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) is a medium-sized semiaquatic rodent native to North America and an introduced species in parts of Europe, Asia and South America.

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National Historic Sites of Canada

National Historic Sites of Canada (Lieux historiques nationaux du Canada) are places that have been designated by the federal Minister of the Environment on the advice of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada (HSMBC), as being of national historic significance.

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Natural Resources Canada

Natural Resources Canada (NRCan; Ressources naturelles Canada; label)Natural Resources Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Department of Natural Resources.

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Nelson River

The Nelson River is a river of north-central North America, in the Canadian province of Manitoba.

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Norman Wells

Norman Wells (Slavey language: Tłegǫ́hłı̨ "where there is oil") is a town located in the Sahtu Region, Northwest Territories, Canada.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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North American Water and Power Alliance

The North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWPA or NAWAPA, also referred to as NAWAPTA from proposed governing body the North American Water and Power Treaty Authority) was a proposed continental water management scheme conceived in the 1950s by the US Army Corps of Engineers.

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North Nahanni River

North Nahanni River is a river in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Mackenzie River and North Nahanni River are rivers of the Northwest Territories.

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North West Company

The North West Company was a fur trading business headquartered in Montreal from 1779 to 1821.

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Northern Canada

Northern Canada (Nord du Canada), colloquially the North or the Territories, is the vast northernmost region of Canada, variously defined by geography and politics.

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Northern pike

The northern pike (Esox lucius) is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus Esox (pikes).

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Northwest Territories

The Northwest Territories (abbreviated NT or NWT; Territoires du Nord-Ouest; formerly North-West Territories) is a federal territory of Canada.

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Old-growth forest

An old-growth forest (also referred to as primary forest) is a forest that has developed over a long period of time without disturbance.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Paddle steamer

A paddle steamer is a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine that drives paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water.

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Peace Canyon Dam

The Peace Canyon Dam is a large hydroelectric dam on the Peace River in northern British Columbia, Canada.

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Peace River

The Peace River (rivière de la Paix) is a river in Canada that originates in the Rocky Mountains of northern British Columbia and flows to the northeast through northern Alberta.

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Peace River Country

The Peace River Country (or Peace Country; Région de la Rivière-de-la-paix) is an aspen parkland region centring on the Peace River in Canada.

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Peace–Athabasca Delta

The Peace–Athabasca Delta, located in northeast Alberta, is the largest freshwater inland river delta in North America.

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Peel River (Canada)

The Peel River (Teetł'it Gwinjik in Gwich’in) is a tributary of the Mackenzie River in Yukon and the Northwest Territories in Canada. Mackenzie River and Peel River (Canada) are rivers of Yukon and rivers of the Northwest Territories.

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Peel watershed

The Peel watershed drains 14% of the Yukon Territory Canada and flows into the Beaufort Sea via the Peel and then Mackenzie Rivers.

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Peopling of the Americas

The peopling of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Paleo-Indians) entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge, which had formed between northeastern Siberia and western Alaska due to the lowering of sea level during the Last Glacial Maximum (26,000 to 19,000 years ago).

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Peregrine falcon

The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), also known simply as the peregrine, and historically as the duck hawk in North America, is a cosmopolitan bird of prey (raptor) in the family Falconidae.

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Permafrost

Permafrost is soil or underwater sediment which continuously remains below for two years or more: the oldest permafrost had been continuously frozen for around 700,000 years.

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Picea mariana

Picea mariana, the black spruce, is a North American species of spruce tree in the pine family.

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Pine Point Mine

The Pine Point Mine is located on the south shore of Great Slave Lake between Hay River to the west and Fort Resolution to the east, in the Northwest Territories of Canada.

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Pingo

Pingos are intrapermafrost ice-cored hills, high and in diameter.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Populus

Populus is a genus of 25–30 species of deciduous flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, native to most of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Porcupine River

The Porcupine River (Ch’ôonjik in Gwich’in) is a tributary of the Yukon River in Canada and the United States. Mackenzie River and Porcupine River are rivers of Yukon.

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Portage

Portage or portaging (CA) is the practice of carrying water craft or cargo over land, either around an obstacle in a river, or between two bodies of water.

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Provinces and territories of Canada

Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution.

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Redknife River

The Redknife River is a river in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Mackenzie River and Redknife River are rivers of the Northwest Territories.

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Redstone River

The Redstone River is a large river in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Mackenzie River and Redstone River are rivers of the Northwest Territories.

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Reservoir

A reservoir is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.

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Riparian zone

A riparian zone or riparian area is the interface between land and a river or stream.

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River

A river is a natural flowing freshwater stream, flowing on land or inside caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river.

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River delta

A river delta is a landform shaped like a triangle, created by the deposition of sediment that is carried by a river and enters slower-moving or stagnant water.

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Rocky Mountain Trench

The Rocky Mountain Trench, also known as the Valley of a Thousand Peaks or simply the Trench, is a large valley on the western side of the northern part of North America's Rocky Mountains.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America.

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Sans Sault Rapids

The Sans Sault Rapids are a navigational impediment on Canada's Mackenzie River, in the Northwest Territories.

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Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is a province in Western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the United States (Montana and North Dakota).

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Saskatchewan River

The Saskatchewan River (Cree: kisiskāciwani-sīpiy ᑭᓯᐢᑳᒋᐊᐧᓂ ᓰᐱᕀ, "swift flowing river") is a major river in Canada.

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Seaplane

A seaplane is a powered fixed-wing aircraft capable of taking off and landing (alighting) on water.

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Selwyn Mountains

The Selwyn Mountains are a mountain range in northern Canada, forming part of the border between the Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories, and which are part of the Eastern System of the Canadian Cordillera (aka the Western Cordillera).

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Site C dam

The Site C Dam is a hydroelectric dam currently under construction on the Peace River, 14 kilometers southwest of Fort St. John in northeastern British Columbia, Canada.

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Slave River

The Slave River is a Canadian river that flows from the confluence of the Rivière des Rochers and Peace River in northeastern Alberta and runs into Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. Mackenzie River and Slave River are rivers of the Northwest Territories.

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Slavey language

Slavey (also Slave, Slavé) is a group of Athabaskan languages and a dialect continuum spoken amongst the Dene peoples of Canada in the Northwest Territories – or central Denendeh – where it also has official status.

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St. Lawrence River

The St. Mackenzie River and St. Lawrence River are Physiographic provinces.

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Stream capture

Stream capture, river capture, river piracy or stream piracy is a geomorphological phenomenon occurring when a stream or river drainage system or watershed is diverted from its own bed, and flows down to the bed of a neighbouring stream.

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Taiga

Taiga (p), also known as boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches. Mackenzie River and Taiga are Physiographic provinces.

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Taltson River

The Taltson River is a roughly river in the Northwest Territories of Canada that drains into the Great Slave Lake. Mackenzie River and Taltson River are rivers of the Northwest Territories.

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The Ramparts (Mackenzie River)

The Ramparts is a canyon on Canada's Mackenzie River, in the Northwest Territories.

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Thelon River

The Thelon River (Akilinik, "on the other side") stretches across northern Canada. Mackenzie River and Thelon River are rivers of the Northwest Territories.

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Thutade Lake

Thutade Lake is located in the Omineca Mountains of the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada.

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Trail Creek (Alaska)

Trail Creek also known as Trail River is a stream in the Chugach Mountains near Moose Pass, Alaska.

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Tributary

A tributary, or an affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (main stem or "parent"), river, or a lake.

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Trout River (Northwest Territories)

Trout River is a river in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Mackenzie River and Trout River (Northwest Territories) are rivers of the Northwest Territories.

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Tsiigehtchic

Tsiigehtchic ("mouth of the iron river"), officially the Charter Community of Tsiigehtchic, is a Gwich'in community located at the confluence of the Mackenzie and the Arctic Red Rivers, in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Tsintu River

The Tsintu River is a river in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Mackenzie River and Tsintu River are rivers of the Northwest Territories.

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Tugboat

A tugboat or tug is a marine vessel that manoeuvres other vessels by pushing or pulling them, with direct contact or a tow line.

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Tuktoyaktuk

Tuktoyaktuk, or Tuktuyaaqtuuq (Inuvialuktun: it looks like a caribou), is an Inuvialuit hamlet located near the Mackenzie River delta in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada, at the northern terminus of the Inuvik–Tuktoyaktuk Highway.

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Tulita

Tulita, which in Slavey means "where the rivers or waters meet", is a hamlet in the Sahtu Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Tundra

In physical geography, tundra is a type of biome where tree growth is hindered by frigid temperatures and short growing seasons.

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Tungsten

Tungsten (also called wolfram) is a chemical element; it has symbol W and atomic number 74.

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United States Army Corps of Engineers

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is the military engineering branch of the United States Army.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.

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Uranium

Uranium is a chemical element; it has symbol U and atomic number 92.

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W. A. C. Bennett Dam

The W. A. C. Bennett Dam is a large hydroelectric dam on the Peace River in northern British Columbia, Canada.

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Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3.

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Wetland

A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally for a shorter periods.

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Whooping crane

The whooping crane (Grus americana) is an endangered crane species, native to North America, named for its “whooping” calls.

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William Pullen

Vice-Admiral William John Samuel Pullen (4 December 1813 – 22 January 1887) was a Royal Navy officer who was the first European to sail along the north coast of Alaska from the Bering Strait to the Mackenzie River in Canada.

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Williston Lake

Williston Lake is a reservoir created by the W. A. C. Bennett Dam which is located in the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada.

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Willow

Willows, also called sallows and osiers, of the genus Salix, comprise around 350 species (plus numerous hybrids) of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions.

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Wollaston Lake

Wollaston Lake (translation) is a lake in the north-eastern part of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Wrigley, Northwest Territories

Wrigley (South Slavey language: Pehdzeh Ki "clay place") is a "Designated Authority" in the Dehcho Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Yellowknife

Yellowknife (Dogrib: Sǫǫ̀mbak’è) is the capital, largest community, and only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Yellowknife Highway

The Yellowknife Highway, officially Northwest Territories Highway 3 and also known as the Great Slave Highway, is a highway connecting Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, to the Mackenzie Highway, from a junction north of the Alberta border.

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Younger Dryas

The Younger Dryas (YD) was a period in Earth's geologic history that occurred circa 12,900 to 11,700 years Before Present (BP).

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Yukon

Yukon (formerly called the Yukon Territory and referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories.

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Yukon River

The Yukon River is a major watercourse of northwestern North America. From its source in British Columbia, it flows through Canada's territory of Yukon (itself named after the river). The lower half of the river continues westward through the U.S. state of Alaska. The river is long and empties into the Bering Sea at the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta. Mackenzie River and Yukon River are rivers of Yukon.

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Zama City

Zama City is a hamlet in northwestern Alberta, Canada within Mackenzie County.

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Zinc

Zinc is a chemical element with the symbol Zn and atomic number 30.

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See also

Rivers of the Northwest Territories

• Anderson River (Northwest Territories)
• Arctic Red River
• Back River (Nunavut)
• Bloody River (Canada)
• Coppermine River
• Great Bear River
• Hay River (Canada)
• Horn River
• Hornaday River
• Horton River (Canada)
• Kagloryuak River
• Kakisa River
• Kazan River
• Keele River
• Kendall River
• Kotaneelee River
• Liard River
• List of rivers of the Northwest Territories
• Lockhart River (Northwest Territories)
• Mackenzie River
• Masik River
• Mountain River (Northwest Territories)
• Nanook River
• North Nahanni River
• Peel River (Canada)
• Redknife River
• Redstone River
• Roscoe River
• Salt River (Canada)
• Slave River
• Snare River
• South Nahanni River
• Taltson River
• Thelon River
• Thomsen River
• Tree River
• Trout River (Northwest Territories)
• Tsintu River
• Whitefish River (Northwest Territories)
• Yellowknife River

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackenzie_River

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