Location Baffin Island, Nunavut Surface area 3,115 km (1,203 sq mi) Area 3,115 km² | Basin countries Canada Settlements uninhabited Surface elevation 113 m | |
Amadjuak Lake is a lake in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. Along with Nettilling Lake, it is located in south-central Baffin Island's Great Plain of the Koukdjuak. It is 154 km (96 mi) south of Burwash Bay. The closest community is Iqaluit. (Jacobs, 1997)
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Map of Amadjuak Lake, Baffin, Unorganized, NU, Canada
GeographyEdit
The lake is 3,115 km2 (1,203 sq mi) in size, and sits at an elevation of 113 m (371 ft).
This lower-lying area only emerged 4,500 years ago (recently in geological terms) from beneath the waters of Foxe Basin. Amadjuak Lake is the second largest lake on Baffin Island (after Nettilling Lake) and third-largest in Nunavut.
EthnographyEdit
The lake was a gathering place for Inuit from Kimmirut, Soper River Valley, Pangnirtung, Cape Dorset, and Frobisher Bay.
FaunaEdit
Amadjuak Lake is also notable as a summer feeding grounds, calving grounds, and migration route for the Southern Qikiqtaaluk herd of Barren-ground caribou.