Nueltin Lake

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Nueltin Lake
Location	Manitoba/Nunavut
Coordinates	60°09′03″N, 099°45′23″WCoordinates: 60°09′03″N, 099°45′23″W
Basin countries	Canada

Nueltin Lake, from the Chipewyan nu-thel-tin-tu-ch-eh, meaning "sleeping island lake", straddles the Manitoba-Nunavut border in Canada. The lake, which has an area of 1,851 km², is predominantly in Nunavut's Kivalliq Region, and on the Manitoba size there is the Nueltin Lake Airport which serves the fishing lodge. The lake is split into two parts by a set of narrows.^[1][2]

In 1949, the Government of Canada relocated an Inuit group, the Ihalmiut, to Nueltin from Ennadai Lake but the hunting was poor and they did not stay in the area.^[3]

[edit] References

1. ^ Nueltin Lake, Nunavut and Manitoba at the Atlas of Canada
2. ^ Nueltin Lake. thecanadianencyclopedia.com. Retrieved on 2007-12-31.
3. ^ To Improve the Lives of Aboriginal People