Thelon River
The Thelon River stretches 900 kilometres across northern Canada. Its source is Whitefish Lake in the Northwest Territories, and it flows east to Baker Lake in Nunavut. The Thelon ultimately drains into Hudson Bay at Chesterfield Inlet.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Hayne, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Baker Lake Airport.
Baker Lake Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Gierszep, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Baker Lake Airport is located 3 nautical miles southwest of Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada. It is operated by the government of Nunavut. It has a single gravel runway 4,195 ft × 100 ft. Baker Lake Airport is situated 2½ km north of Thelon River.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Baker Lake.
Baker Lake
Town
Photo: E-90, Public domain.
Baker Lake is a hamlet in the Kivalliq Region, in Nunavut on mainland Canada. Located on the shore of the namesake Baker Lake, it is notable for being Nunavut's sole inland community. Baker Lake is situated 5 km northeast of Thelon River.
Thelon River
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Canada
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Satellite Map
Discover Thelon River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Thelon River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Thelon”
- Bulgarian: “Телон”
- Cebuano: “Thelon River”
- Chuvash: “Телон”
- Dutch: “Thelon River”
- Dutch: “Thelon”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر ثيلون”
- Finnish: “Thelon River”
- Finnish: “Thelon-joki”
- Finnish: “Thelon”
- Finnish: “Thelonjoki”
- French: “Akilinik”
- French: “rivière Thelon”
- French: “Rivière Thelon”
- French: “Thelon”
- German: “Thelon River”
- Irish: “Abhainn Thelon”
- Italian: “Thelon”
- Japanese: “セロン川”
- Japanese: “テロン川”
- Lithuanian: “Telonas”
- Mingrelian: “ტელონი (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “ტელონი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thelon River”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thelon”
- Norwegian: “Thelon”
- Polish: “Thelon”
- Portuguese: “Rio Thelon”
- Russian: “Телон (река)”
- Russian: “Телон”
- Serbian: “Телон (река)”
- Serbian: “Телон”
- Spanish: “Rio Thelon”
- Spanish: “Río Thelon”
- Spanish: “Thelon”
- Swedish: “Thelon River”
- Ukrainian: “Телон (річка)”
- Ukrainian: “Телон”
- Welsh: “Afon Thelon”
- “Thelon”
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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 “Thelon River”. Photo: Hayne, CC BY-SA 3.0.