Lake Athabasca

Lake Athabasca is in the north-west corner of and the north-east corner of between 58° and 60° N in Canada. The lake is about 26% in Alberta and 74% in Saskatchewan.
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  • Type: Lake
  • Description: large glacial lake in northern Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Also known as: Athabasca

Lake Athabasca

Latitude
59° north
Longitude
-110.5° or 110° 30′ west
Elevation
207 metres (679 feet)
Open location code
95FF2G22+22
Geo­Names ID
5998131
Wiki­data ID
Q272463
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Lake Athabasca” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Athabascameer
  • Arabic: بحيرة أثاباسكا
  • Armenian: Աթաբասկա
  • Azerbaijani: Atabaska gölü
  • Basque: Athabasca aintzira
  • Basque: Athabaska aintzira
  • Basque: Athabaska lakua
  • Belarusian: Атабаска
  • Belarusian: Возера Атабаска
  • Bengali: আথাবাস্কা হ্রদ
  • Bosnian: Athabasca (jezero)
  • Bosnian: Athabasca
  • Bulgarian: Атабаска
  • Catalan: Llac Athabasca
  • Cebuano: Lac Athabasca (lanaw sa Alberta)
  • Cebuano: Lac Athabasca (lanaw sa Saskatchewan)
  • Cebuano: Lac Athabasca
  • Chinese: 阿萨巴斯卡湖
  • Chinese: 阿薩巴斯卡湖
  • Chuvash: Атабаска
  • Czech: Athabasca
  • Danish: Athabascasøen
  • Dutch: Athabascameer
  • Dutch: Lake Athabasca
  • Egyptian Arabic: بحيره اثاباسكا
  • Esperanto: Atabaska Lago
  • Estonian: Athabasca järv
  • Finnish: Athabascajärvi
  • Finnish: Lake Athabasca
  • French: lac Athabasca
  • French: Lac Athabasca
  • Georgian: ათაბასკის ტბა
  • German: Athabascasee
  • German: Athabaskasee
  • German: Lake Athabasca
  • Greek: Λίμνη Αθαμπάσκα
  • Hebrew: אגם אתבסקה
  • Hebrew: ימת אתבסקה
  • Hindi: अथाबास्का झील
  • Hungarian: Atabaszk-tó
  • Hungarian: Atapaszka-tó
  • Indonesian: Danau Athabasca
  • Italian: Athabasca
  • Italian: Lago Athabasca
  • Japanese: アサバスカ湖
  • Kazakh: Атабаска
  • Kirghiz: Атабаска көлү
  • Korean: 애서배스카호
  • Latin: Lacus Athabasca
  • Latvian: Atabaskas ezers
  • Latvian: Lake Athabasca
  • Lithuanian: Atabaskos ežeras
  • Macedonian: Атабаска
  • Mingrelian: ათაბასკა (ტობა)
  • Mingrelian: ათაბასკა
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Athabascasjøen
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Lake Athabasca
  • Norwegian: Athabascasjøen
  • Occitan (post 1500): Lac Athabasca
  • Persian: دریاچه آتاباسکا
  • Polish: Athabaska
  • Polish: Jezioro Athabaska
  • Portuguese: Lago Athabasca
  • Romanian: Athabasca Lake
  • Romanian: Lacul Athabasca
  • Romanian: Lake Athabasca
  • Russian: Атабаска
  • Serbian: Atabaska
  • Serbian: Lake Athabasca
  • Serbian: Атабаска
  • Serbian: Језеро Атабаска
  • Slovak: Atabaské jazero
  • Slovenian: Athabasca
  • Slovenian: Lake Athabasca
  • Spanish: Athabasca
  • Spanish: Lago Athabasca
  • Swedish: Athabascasjön
  • Swedish: Athabaskasjön
  • Swedish: Lac Athabasca
  • Swedish: Lake Athabasca
  • Tajik: Атабаска
  • Turkish: Athabasca Gölü
  • Ukrainian: Атабаска
  • Urdu: جھیل اتھابسکا
  • Uzbek: Atabaska
  • Venetian: Athabasca
  • Waray (Philippines): Danaw Athabasca
  • Welsh: Llyn Athabasca
  • Western Frisian: Atabaskamar
  • Western Panjabi: جھیل اتھابسکا

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lake Athabasca”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.