Amadjuak Lake
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Geography
The lake is Template:Cvt in size, and sits at an elevation of Template:Cvt.[2]
This lower-lying area only emerged 4,500 years ago (recently in geological terms) from beneath the waters of Foxe Basin. Amadjuak is the second largest lake on Baffin Island (after Nettilling Lake) and third-largest in Nunavut.
Ethnography
The lake was a gathering place for Inuit from Kimmirut, Soper River Valley, Pangnirtung, Kinngait, and Frobisher Bay.[3]
Fauna
Amadjuak Lake is also notable as a summer feeding grounds, calving grounds, and migration route for the Southern Qikiqtaaluk herd of barren-ground caribou.[4]
See also
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