Lake Beechey

Lake Beechey
Lake Beechey is located in Nunavut
Lake Beechey
Lake Beechey
LocationKitikmeot Region, Nunavut
Coordinates65°25′00″N 106°50′00″W / 65.41667°N 106.83333°W / 65.41667; -106.83333 (Lake Beechey)
Primary inflowsBack River
Primary outflowsBack River
Basin countriesCanada
Settlementsuninhabited

Lake Beechey (sometimes Beechey Lake) is a lake in the Kitikmeot Region, 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 first European to explore the lake was George Back[2] and named by Sir John Franklin in honour 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. 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. ^ "Frederick William Beechey". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  4. ^ Taylor, Isaac (1898). Names and Their Histories: A Handbook of Historical Geography and Topographical Nomenclature. London: Rivingtons. pp. 65. OCLC 4161840. lake beechey.


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