Great Bear Lake

Great Bear Lake in the boreal forest of Canada is the largest lake entirely in Canada, the fourth-largest in North America, and the eighth-largest in the world.
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  • Lake
  • …lies at an elevation of 156 metres (512 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code DAS
  • …is also known as “Sahtú”
  • Description: large glacial lake in the Northwest Territories, Canada

Great Bear Lake

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Latitude
65.83373° or 65° 50′ 1″ north
Longitude
-120.75341° or 120° 45′ 12″ west
Open location code
94QXR6MW+FJ
Geo­Names ID
5965755
Wiki­data ID
Q5525

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Great Bear Lake” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Groot Beremeer”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة الدب العظمى”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة الدب العظيم”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة الدب”
  • Armenian: “Մեծ Արջի լիճ”
  • Asturian: “Gran Llagu del Osu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Böyük Ayı gölü”
  • Azerbaijani: “Böyük Ayı Gölü”
  • Bashkir: “Оло Айыу күле”
  • Basque: “Hartzaren Aintzira Handia”
  • Belarusian: “Вялікае Мядзведжае возера”
  • Belarusian: “Вялікае Мядзвежае возера”
  • Belarusian: “Вялікае Мядзьведжае возера”
  • Bulgarian: “Голямо Мече езеро”
  • Catalan: “Gran Llac dels Ossos”
  • Chinese: “大熊湖”
  • Chuvash: “Мăн Медвежье”
  • Croatian: “Veliko medvjeđe jezero”
  • Czech: “Velké Medvědí jezero”
  • Danish: “Great Bear Lake”
  • Dutch: “Great Bear Lake”
  • Dutch: “Groot Berenmeer”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره الدب العظيم”
  • Esperanto: “Granda Ursa Lago”
  • Estonian: “Suur Karujärv”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Great Bear Talaab”
  • Finnish: “Iso Karhujärvi”
  • French: “Grand lac de l’Ours”
  • French: “Grand Lac de l’Ours”
  • French: “Great Bear Lake”
  • Galician: “Gran Lago do Oso”
  • Georgian: “დიდი დათვის ტბა”
  • German: “Bärensee”
  • German: “Great Bear Lake”
  • German: “Großer Bärensee”
  • German: “Grosser”
  • German: “Großer”
  • Greek: “Μεγάλη Λίμνη της Αρκούδας”
  • Greek: “Μεγάλη Λίμνη των Άρκτων”
  • Hebrew: “ימת הדובים הגדולה”
  • Hindi: “ग्रेट बियर झील”
  • Hungarian: “Nagy-Medve-tó”
  • Icelandic: “Stóra bjarnarvatn”
  • Indonesian: “Danau Beruang Besar”
  • Italian: “Gran Lago degli Orsi”
  • Italian: “Grande Lago degli Orsi”
  • Italian: “Great Bear Lake”
  • Japanese: “グレートベア湖”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ರೇಟ್ ಬೇರ್ ಸರೋವರ”
  • Kazakh: “Үлкен Аюлы көлі”
  • Korean: “그레이트베어호”
  • Latin: “Lacus Ursi magni”
  • Latin: “Lacus Ursinus magnus”
  • Latvian: “Greitbērleiks”
  • Lithuanian: “Didysis Lokių ežeras”
  • Macedonian: “Големо Мечкино Езеро”
  • Malayalam: “ഗ്രേറ്റ്ബെയർ തടാകം”
  • Mazanderani: “Garyt Pyər”
  • Mazanderani: “گریت بیر”
  • Mazanderani: “گریت پیر”
  • Mingrelian: “დიდი თუნთიშ ტობა”
  • Mongolian: “Их Баавгай нуур”
  • Northern Sami: “Stuorra Guovžajávri”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Store Bjørnesjø”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Store Bjørnevann”
  • Norwegian: “Store Bjørnesjø”
  • Panjabi: “ਗ੍ਰੇਟ ਬੀਅਰ ਝੀਲ”
  • Persian: “دریاچه گریت بر”
  • Polish: “Wielkie Jezioro Niedźwiedzie”
  • Portuguese: “Grande Lago do Urso”
  • Quechua: “Sahtu qucha”
  • Romanian: “Marele Lac al Urșilor”
  • Russian: “Большое Медвежье озеро”
  • Russian: “Большое Медвежье”
  • Serbian: “Sahtu”
  • Serbian: “Велико медвеђе језеро”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Veliko medvjeđe jezero”
  • Slave (Athapascan): “Sahtú”
  • Slovak: “Veľké medvedie jazero”
  • Slovenian: “Great Bear Lake”
  • Slovenian: “Veliko medvedje jezero”
  • Spanish: “Gran Lago del Oso”
  • Swahili: “Ziwa Great Bear”
  • Swedish: “Stora Björnsjön”
  • Tamil: “கரடிப் பேரேரி”
  • Thai: “ทะเลสาบเกรตแบร์”
  • Turkish: “Büyük Ayı Gölü”
  • Ukrainian: “Велике Ведмеже озеро”
  • Uzbek: “Katta ayiqli koʻl”
  • Venetian: “Grande Lago degli Orsi”
  • Vietnamese: “Hồ Gấu lớn”
  • Vietnamese: “Hồ Gấu Lớn”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dumagko nga Danaw Oso”
  • Welsh: “Llyn Great Bear”
  • Western Frisian: “Grutte Bearemar”
  • Western Panjabi: “گریٹ بیئر جھیل”
  • Wu Chinese: “大熊湖”
  • Yue Chinese: “大熊湖”

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