Amadjuak Lake

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lake_name = Amadjuak Lake
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caption_lake = Amadjuak Lake is in the southern part of Baffin Island, the lower of the two visible lakes; the higher one is Nettilling Lake.
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Amadjuak Lake, 3,115 km2 (1,202 Sq Mi), elevation 113 m, is one of two lakes (the other being Nettilling Lake) situated in the Great Plain of the Koukdjuak in south-central Baffin Island, Canada. This lower-lying area only emerged 4,500 years ago (recently in geological terms) from beneath the waters of Foxe Basin. Amadjuak Lake is the second largest lake on Baffin Island (after Nettilling Lake) and third-largest in Nunavut. Amadjuak Lake is 154 km south of Burwash Bay. The closest city is Iqaluit.(Jacobs, 1997)

Amadjuak Lake's Arctic tundra yielded artifacts dating 3,000 B.C. of Thule people's autumnal use, and later was a gathering place for Inuit from Kimmirut, Soper River Valley, Pangnirtung, Cape Dorset, and Frobisher Bay. [cite web |url=http://park.org/Canada/arctic/soper1/soper1.html |title=History of the Soper River |publisher=park.org |accessdate=2008-01-19] Amadjuak Lake is also notable as a summer feeding grounds, calving grounds, and migration route for the Southern Qikiqtaaluk herd of Barren-ground caribou. [cite web |url=http://www.itk.ca/environment/wildlife-caribou.php |title=Inuit Knowledge of the Qikiqtaaluk Caribou |publisher=itk.ca |accessdate=2008-01-19]

References

* Jacobs, J. D., A. N. Headley, L. A. Maus, and W. N. Mode. 1997. [http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:pYORpB5RCLgJ:pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic50-2-167.pdf+%22amadjuak+lake%22+length+width&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us "Climate and Vegetation of the Interior Lowlands of Southern Baffin Island: Long-Term Stability at the Low Arctic Limit"] . "Arctic". 50, no. 2: 167.