Hottah Lake

Hottah Lake
This image shows Great Bear Lake and the surrounding region. The much smaller Hottah Lake is seen here as the largest body of water lying to the south-east of Great Bear Lake
Hottah Lake is located in Northwest Territories
Hottah Lake
Hottah Lake
LocationNorthwest Territories
Coordinates65°05′45.1″N 118°29′14.6″W / 65.095861°N 118.487389°W / 65.095861; -118.487389 (Hottah Lake)[1]
Basin countriesCanada
Surface area918 km2 (354 sq mi)
Surface elevation180 m (590 ft)
References[2]

Hottah Lake is the sixth largest lake in the Northwest Territories, Canada.[3]

Plane crash

On 8 November 1972, a medical evacuation aircraft piloted by Marten Hartwell crashed on a hillside near the lake. Hartwell broke both legs while the nurse, Judy Hill, and a pregnant Inuk woman named Neemee Nulliayok died. David Pisurayak Kootook also survived the crash but died after 20 days. Kootook was instrumental in the pair's survival but unlike Hartwell would not eat the flesh of the dead nurse.[4]

Legacy

When the Mars Curiosity rover discovered solid evidence of an ancient streambed on Mars from a pile of cemented smooth rocks (conglomerates), the project managers named one of the two rock outcrop sites Hottah (the other is named Link) after the Lake.[5][6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Hottah Lake | World Lakes Database - ILEC". Archived from the original on March 3, 2012.
  2. ^ "Principal lakes, elevation and area, by province and territory". Statistics Canada. February 2, 2005. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
  3. ^ "The Atlas of Canada – Lakes". Archived from the original on 2012-10-06. Retrieved 2011-01-29.
  4. ^ As Told at the Explorers Club: More Than Fifty Gripping Tales of Adventure By George Plimpton[permanent dead link‍]
  5. ^ Fesenmaier, Kimm (September 27, 2012). "Mars Rover Finds Evidence of Ancient Streambed". Caltech Media Relations. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012.
  6. ^ Webster, Guy (September 27, 2012). "NASA Rover Finds Old Streambed on Martian Surface". Caltech Media Relations. Archived from the original on December 19, 2014. Retrieved March 21, 2022.