Keller Lake is a surface water body in the
Northwest Territories of
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
. It is located south of the
Great Bear Lake
Great Bear Lake ( den, Sahtú; french: Grand lac de l'Ours) is a lake in the boreal forest of Canada. It is the largest lake entirely in Canada (Lake Superior and Lake Huron are larger but straddle the Canada–US border), the fourth-largest ...
and north of
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. The community is located on an ...
, at an elevation of . The lake has a triangular shape, a surface area of , and it empties through the Johnny Hoe River into the Great Bear Lake.
There is a
salmonid population in Keller Lake. On some of the plains surrounding Keller Lake,
climax polygonal bogs have formed, the early successional stage to which often consists of pioneer
Black Spruce.
[C. Michael Hogan. 2008]
See also
*
List of rivers of the Northwest Territories
This is a list of rivers that are in whole or partly in the Northwest Territories, Canada.
By watershed
Arctic Ocean watershed
* Back River ( Nunavut)
;Canadian Arctic Archipelago
*Hornaday River (Nunavut)
* Kagloryuak River (Nunavut)
* Nanoo ...
Notes
References
* Bryan Robert Davies and Keith F. Walker. 1986. ''The Ecology of River Systems'', Published by Springer, , , 793 pages
* C. Michael Hogan. 2008
''Black Spruce: Picea mariana'', GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. Nicklas Stromberg
Lakes of the Northwest Territories
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