Ward Hunt Lake, seen from its western shore. Image obtained by an automated camera on Walker Hill, 21 July 2017. |
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| Latitude : | 83.0878 | |
| Longitude : | -74.1454 | |
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Lake located on Ward Hunt Island, off the north coast of Ellesmere Island.
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The northernmost lake in Canada. Lake generally shallow but with a maximum depth of 9,7 m. The lake area is 0.35 km2 and is snow-fed. The catchment area is 1.82 km2. This lake had a perennial ice cover of about 4 m until recently. It outflows to the Arctic Ocean (south shore of Ward Hunt Island).
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