Coal Lake

Coal Lake is a long, sinuous lake located approximately 60 km southeast of the city of , just northeast of the city of . The lake is in one of the glacial meltwater channels formed when the 4,000 km2 of Lake Edmonton, which existed for roughly 100 years at the end of the last ice age, breached its ice dam and drained within a few weeks.

Coal Lake

Latitude
53.07472° or 53° 4′ 29″ north
Longitude
-113.27139° or 113° 16′ 17″ west
Elevation
700 metres (2,297 feet)
Open location code
95583PFH+VC
Geo­Names ID
5924431
Wiki­data ID
Q5137743
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Coal Lake” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: Coal Lake
  • Egyptian Arabic: بحيره كوال
  • French: Coal Lake
  • German: Coal Lake
  • Swedish: Coal Lake
  • Coal Lake

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