- elevation 480 m (1,575 ft) - average 13.6 m/s (480 cu ft/s) Discharge 13.6 m³/s Basin area 4,740 km² Mouth Great Bear Lake | - elevation 186 m (610 ft) Length 144 km Basin area 4,740 km² Source Unnamed lake | |
The Whitefish River is a river in the Deline District, Sahtu Region, Northwest Territories, Canada. It is in the Arctic Ocean and Mackenzie River drainage basins, is a tributary of Great Bear Lake and has a watershed of 4,740 square kilometres (1,830 sq mi).
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Course
The river begins at an unnamed lake and flows west then southwest to the west side Man Drowned Himself Lake. It exits the lake at the south, takes in the unnamed left tributary arriving from Kekwinatui Lake, and heads southwest, west and northwest. It passes Whitefish River Airfield on the left bank of the river valley, and reaches its mouth at Bydand Bay on the Smith Arm of Great Bear Lake, about 14 kilometres (9 mi) south of Ford Bay Airport and 110 kilometres (68 mi) northeast of the community of Norman Wells. Great Bear Lake empties via the Great Bear River and the Mackenzie River into the Arctic Ocean.
Hydrology
A hydrometric station operated near the mouth of the Whitefish River between 1977 and 1992. It recorded a mean annual flow of 13.6 cubic metres (480.3 cu ft) per second.