Lake Beechey

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Lake Beechey
Location Kitikmeot, Nunavut
Coordinates 65°25′00″N 106°50′00″W / 65.41667°N 106.83333°W / 65.41667; -106.83333 (Lake Beechey)Coordinates: 65°25′00″N 106°50′00″W / 65.41667°N 106.83333°W / 65.41667; -106.83333 (Lake Beechey)
Primary inflows Back River
Primary outflows Back River
Basin countries Canada
Settlements uninhabited

Lake Beechey (sometimes Beechey Lake) is a lake in Kitikmeot, Nunavut, Canada. It is a long, narrow, lake-expansion of the Back River. It is part of the western Canadian Precambrian Shield. It contains a few unnamed islands.

Historically, Lake Beechey was the southernmost territory of Copper Inuit.[1]

The lake was discovered by explorer George Back[2] and named by Sir John Franklin in honor of Frederick William Beechey.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Cummins, Bryan; Cummins, B.D. (2004). Faces Of The North: The Ethnographic Photography Of John Honigmann. Toronto: Dundurn Press Ltd. pp. p. 149. ISBN 1-896219-79-9. 
  2. ↑ Stefansson, V.; Wilcox, O. R., & Harrison, R. E. (2005). Great adventures and explorations: from the earliest times to the present as told by the explorers themselves. Whitefish, Montana: Kessinger Publishing. p. 525. ISBN 1-4179-9090-2. 
  3. ↑ "Beechey, Frederick William". thecanadianencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2008-08-24. 
  4. ↑ Taylor, Isaac (1898). Names and Their Histories: A Handbook of Historical Geography and Topographical Nomenclature. London: Rivingtons. p. 65. OCLC 4161840. 
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