Great Bear River
The 113-kilometre-long Great Bear River, which drains the Great Bear Lake westward through marshes into the Mackenzie River, forms an important transportation link during its four ice-free months.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tulita Airport.
Tulita Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Trevor MacInnis, Public domain.
Tulita Airport is located adjacent to Tulita, Northwest Territories, Canada. Its hours of operation are Monday to Friday from 9 am to 5 pm. The airport does operate outside of its operational hours when responding to MEDIVAC call out.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tulita.
Tulita
Village
Photo: ntlibrarian, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tulita, which in Slavey means "where the rivers or waters meet", is a hamlet in the Sahtu Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. It was formerly known as Fort Norman, until 1 January 1996.
Great Bear River
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in the Northwest Territories, Canada
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Northwest Territories, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Satellite Map
Discover Great Bear River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Great Bear River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Great Bear”
- Cebuano: “Great Bear River”
- Chinese: “大熊河”
- Chuvash: “Мăн Медвежья”
- Dutch: “Great Bear River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر الدب العظيم”
- Estonian: “Suur Karujõgi”
- French: “grande rivière de l’Ours”
- French: “Grande rivière de l’Ours”
- German: “Great Bear River”
- German: “Großer Bärenfluss”
- Irish: “Abhainn Great Bear”
- Italian: “Grande Fiume degli Orsi”
- Japanese: “グレート・ベア川”
- Japanese: “グレートベア川”
- Latin: “Flumen Ursinum maius”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Great Bear (elv)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Great Bear”
- Norwegian: “Great Bear”
- Russian: “Большая Медвежья река”
- Russian: “Большая Медвежья”
- Spanish: “Gran rio del Oso”
- Spanish: “Gran río del Oso”
- Swedish: “Great Bear River”
- Swedish: “Stora Björnfloden”
- Ukrainian: “Велика Ведмежа”
- Welsh: “Afon Great Bear”
- “Great Bear”
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