Kathleen Lake (native name : Mät'àtäna Mǟn meaning 'something frozen inside lake') is a

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, Canada, located south of the town of Haines Junction within

Kluane National Park and Reserve Kluane National Park and Reserve (; french: Parc national et réserve de parc national de Kluane) are two protected areas in the southwest corner of the territory of Yukon. The National Park Reserve was set aside in 1972 to become a national pa ...

. Located at

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Kilometre 219.7. It hosts a day-use area, a boat launch, a campground, and several hiking trails, including the challenging 3.1 mi (5 km) ascent to King's Throne, a natural, glacially-formed amphitheater overlooking the lake. Kathleen Lake is characterized by exceptionally clear waters and the presence of ''kokanee'' salmon, a landlocked population of

sockeye The sockeye salmon (''Oncorhynchus nerka''), also called red salmon, kokanee salmon, blueback salmon, or simply sockeye, is an anadromous species of salmon found in the Northern Pacific Ocean and rivers discharging into it. This species is a P ...

living and reproducing solely in freshwater bodies. Kathleen Lake was named for a girl from Berwickshire County, Scotland, left behind by William "Scotty" Hume (1868–1950), a North-West Mounted Police constable (Reg. #2259) stationed on the

Dalton Trail The Dalton Trail is a trail that runs between Pyramid Harbor, west of Haines, Alaska in the United States, and Fort Selkirk, in the Yukon Territory of Canada, using the Chilkat Pass. It is 396 km (246 mi) long. Originally, the Ch ...

from 1900 to 1902.From etymology information obtained in 2012 from memos at the Haines Junctio
''Da Kų'' (Our House) Cultural Centre
"Kathleen" may have been a diminutive for ''Catherine''; there were very few people in Scotland at the time with the formal name of ''Kathleen''. Hume was born and lived in Berwickshire County until 1884 (age 16), when he immigrated to Canada without his parents. In 1889, he joined the N-WMP. By 1911, he had married a Southern Tutchone girl, had had three children, and eventually left numerous descendants in the Haines Jct. area, including a few who worked at the Cultural Centre.

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File:Kings Throne Peak, Kathleen Lake.jpg, Kings Throne Peak on south shore of Kathleen Lake File:Mount Worthington Kathleen Lake.jpg, Mt. Worthington on northwest shore of Kathleen Lake {{authority control Lakes of Yukon Kluane National Park and Reserve