| Dubawnt Lake | |
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 Dubawnt Lake, late July 2015 | |
  Dubawnt Lake Location in Nunavut  Dubawnt Lake Dubawnt Lake (Canada) | |
| Location | Kivalliq Region, Nunavut |
| Coordinates | 63°4′0″N 101°42′0″W / 63.06667°N 101.70000°W |
| Lake type | Glacial |
| Primary inflows | Dubawnt River |
| Primary outflows | Dubawnt River |
| Basin countries | Canada |
| Surface area | 3,833 km2 (1,480 sq mi) |
| Surface elevation | 236 m (774 ft) |
| Islands | Snow Island |
| Settlements | uninhabited |
| References | [1][2] |
Dubawnt Lake is a lake in the Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is 3,630 km2 (1,400 sq mi) in size and has several islands.[2] It is about 320 km (200 mi) north of the Four Corners, about 480 km (300 mi) west of Hudson Bay and about 400 km (250 mi) south of the Arctic Circle. To the northwest is the Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary. Its main inlet and outlet is the north-flowing Dubawnt River which joins the Thelon River at Beverly Lake. The Thelon flows east to Hudson Bay at Chesterfield Inlet. It is on the line of contact between the Sayisi Dene band of Eastern Caribou-Eater Chipewyan people and the Harvaqtuurmiut and Ihalmiut bands of Caribou Inuit. The first recorded European to reach the lake was Samuel Hearne in 1770, but it remained largely unknown to outsiders until it was explored by Joseph Tyrrell in 1893. There are no permanent settlements but there are fly-in fish camps where large lake trout can be caught during the two month ice-free season.
