Contwoyto Lake is a lake in the
Kitikmeot Region of the
Canadian territory of
Nunavut, located near the border with the
Northwest Territories. With a total area of , it is the
territories' tenth largest lake.
Lupin Mine
Lupin Mine was a gold mine in Nunavut, Canada. It opened in 1982 and was originally owned and operated by Echo Bay Mines Limited, who in 2003 became a fully owned subsidiary of Kinross Gold Corporation.
The mine ceased production briefly in Aug ...
is located near Contwoyto Lake. The lake is also the terminus of the
Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road
Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road is an annual ice road first built in 1982 to service mines and exploration activities in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Northern Canada. Between long, the road is said to be the world's longest heavy ...
from
Tibbitt Lake in the Northwest Territories, Nunavut's only currently existing road access to the rest of Canada. In 2005, there was a proposal put forward to extend the winter road to a possible port at
Bathurst Inlet.
Climate
See also
*
List of lakes of Canada
This is a partial list of lakes of Canada. Canada has an extremely large number of lakes, with the number of lakes larger than three square kilometres being estimated at close to 31,752 by the Atlas of Canada. Of these, 561 lakes have a surface ar ...
Further reading
* Tremblay, Leo Paul. ''Geology of northern Contwoyto Lake area, district of Mackenzie''. Ottawa: Information Canada, 1976.
* Steele, Peter. The Man Who Mapped the Arctic:The Intrepid Life of George Back, Franklin's Lieutenant. (2003), pp. 132ff.
References
External links
Contwoyto Lake at The Atlas of Canada
Lakes of Kitikmeot Region
Former populated places in the Kitikmeot Region
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