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Nahanni
Nahanni National Park Reserve in the Dehcho Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada, approximately west of Yellowknife, protects a portion of the Mackenzie Mountains Natural Region. The centrepiece of the park is the South Nahanni River (''Naha Dehé''). Four noteworthy canyons reaching in depth,Parks Canada. 2007. South Nahanni River Touring Guide. called First, Second, Third and Fourth Canyon, line its whitewater river. The name Nahanni comes from the indigenous Dene language name for the area; Nahʔa Dehé, which means "river of the land of the Nahʔa people".Parks Canada. 2002. Nahanni National Park Reserve Natural and Cultural Guide to Nahʔa Dehé The park was among the world's first four natural heritage locations to be inscribed as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO in 1978 because of its picturesque wild rivers, canyons, and waterfalls. The park is also said to be haunted or cursed, following the mysterious disappearances and deaths of several gold prospectors over the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Nahanni River
The South Nahanni River is a major tributary of the Liard River, located roughly west of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories of Canada. It is the centerpiece of Nahanni National Park Reserve. It flows from the Mackenzie Mountains in the west, through the Selwyn Mountains, growing as it heads east over the majestic Virginia Falls, and finally empties into the Liard River. The Nahanni has a unique geological history. It was formed when the area was a broad flat plain, forming a winding course typical of flatland rivers. As the mountains lifted, the river cut four deep canyons into the rock, maintaining its eccentric course. The Dene and their ancestors have lived and hunted in the Nahanni area for thousands of years. In the early 19th century, the first Europeans came to the area, seeking fur and gold; however, it wasn't until the 1950s, with the publishing of ''Dangerous River'' by Raymond M. Patterson that the legends about the region were put to rest and the river finally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nahanni Butte
Nahanni Butte ( ; Slavey language: Tthenáágó "strong rock") is a "Designated Authority" in the Dehcho Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. The community is located at the confluence of the Liard and South Nahanni Rivers in the southwestern part of the NWT. Although it was not normally accessible by road, a winter road was constructed yearly until an all-season road was completed in October 2010 as far as the Liard River. Access from there is by river taxi in summer and ice road in winter; there are no plans for a vehicle ferry. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Nahanni Butte had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. In 2016, there were 80 First Nations people and 40 people speak a Slavey language. First Nations The Dene of the community are represented by the Nahɂą Dehé Dene Band and b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Falls, Northwest Territories
Virginia Falls ( den, script=Latn, Nailicho) is a waterfall in Nahanni National Park Reserve, Northwest Territories, Canada. It is located on the South Nahanni River, at an elevation of . It is located from the Yukon border. It has a total drop of , making it about twice the height of Niagara Falls. It consists of a single drop with an average width of . The rock in the centre of the falls is called ''Mason's Rock'', named after Bill Mason, a Canadian canoeist, author, and filmmaker. The Virginia Falls Water Aerodrome is close by. Gallery File:Nahanni - VirginiaFalls.jpg, View of the falls from below. File:Virginia Falls on the South Nahanni River.jpg, View of the falls from above. File:Mason's Rock.jpg, Mason's Rock See also *List of waterfalls by flow rate This list of waterfalls by flow rate includes all waterfalls which are known to have an average flow rate or discharge of at least . The waterfalls in this list are those for which there is verifiable information fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Falls (Northwest Territories)
Virginia Falls ( den, script=Latn, Nailicho) is a waterfall in Nahanni National Park Reserve, Northwest Territories, Canada. It is located on the South Nahanni River, at an elevation of . It is located from the Yukon border. It has a total drop of , making it about twice the height of Niagara Falls. It consists of a single drop with an average width of . The rock in the centre of the falls is called ''Mason's Rock'', named after Bill Mason, a Canadian canoeist, author, and filmmaker. The Virginia Falls Water Aerodrome Virginia Falls Water Aerodrome is located on the South Nahanni River approximately upstream from Virginia Falls, Northwest Territories The Northwest Territories (abbreviated ''NT'' or ''NWT''; french: Territoires du Nord-Ouest, formerly '' ... is close by. Gallery File:Nahanni - VirginiaFalls.jpg, View of the falls from below. File:Virginia Falls on the South Nahanni River.jpg, View of the falls from above. File:Mason's Rock.jpg, Mason's Rock See ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liard River
The Liard River of the North American boreal forest flows through Yukon, British Columbia and the Northwest Territories, Canada. Rising in the Saint Cyr Range of the Pelly Mountains in southeastern Yukon, it flows southeast through British Columbia, marking the northern end of the Rocky Mountains and then curving northeast back into Yukon and Northwest Territories, draining into the Mackenzie River at Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories. The river drains approximately of boreal forest and muskeg. Geography The river habitats are a subsection of the Lower Mackenzie Freshwater Ecoregion. The area around the river in Yukon is called the ''Liard River Valley'', and the Alaska Highway follows the river for part of its route. This surrounding area is also referred to as the ''Liard Plain'', and is a physiographic section of the larger Yukon–Tanana Uplands province, which in turn is part of the larger Intermontane Plateaus physiographic division. The Liard River is a crossi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cirque Of The Unclimbables
Cirque of the Unclimbables, located inside the Nahanni National Park Reserve, in the Northwest Territories The Northwest Territories (abbreviated ''NT'' or ''NWT''; french: Territoires du Nord-Ouest, formerly ''North-Western Territory'' and ''North-West Territories'' and namely shortened as ''Northwest Territory'') is a federal territory of Canada. ..., Canada, approximately west of Yellowknife, is a cluster of peaks and walls in the Mackenzie Mountains Natural Region. Description According to the tourism promotion authority of the government of Northwest Territories: History In 1955, the mountaineer Arnold Wexler came across this series of remote cliffs in the Logan Mountains, now part of Nahanni National Park Reserve. Frustrated by their sheer granite walls, he named the jagged monsters the Cirque of the Unclimbables. Access Access to the Cirque and the Ragged Range is by charter aircraft. Lotus Flower Tower and other climbs The Cirque's most famous peak is the Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories (abbreviated ''NT'' or ''NWT''; french: Territoires du Nord-Ouest, formerly ''North-Western Territory'' and ''North-West Territories'' and namely shortened as ''Northwest Territory'') is a federal territory of Canada. At a land area of approximately and a 2016 census population of 41,790, it is the second-largest and the most populous of the three territories in Northern Canada. Its estimated population as of 2022 is 45,605. Yellowknife is the capital, most populous community, and only city in the territory; its population was 19,569 as of the 2016 census. It became the territorial capital in 1967, following recommendations by the Carrothers Commission. The Northwest Territories, a portion of the old North-Western Territory, entered the Canadian Confederation on July 15, 1870. Since then, the territory has been divided four times to create new provinces and territories or enlarge existing ones. Its current borders date from April 1, 1999, when t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moose Ponds
The Moose Ponds are an expansion of the South Nahanni River just below its headwaters and are the starting point for 50 km of virtually continuous Class II - Class IV whitewater in Canada. This stretch of river is known locally as the ''Rock Gardens''. The ponds are mostly within the Northwest Territories The Northwest Territories (abbreviated ''NT'' or ''NWT''; french: Territoires du Nord-Ouest, formerly ''North-Western Territory'' and ''North-West Territories'' and namely shortened as ''Northwest Territory'') is a federal territory of Canada. ..., however a small portion of the largest and westernmost of the ponds does enter the Yukon. References Lakes of the Northwest Territories Lakes of Yukon Nahanni National Park Reserve {{Yukon-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mackenzie Mountains
The Mackenzie Mountains are a Canadian mountain range forming part of the Yukon-Northwest Territories boundary between the Liard and Peel rivers. The range is named in honour of Canada's second prime minister, Alexander Mackenzie. Nahanni National Park Reserve and Nááts'ihch'oh National Park Reserve are in the Mackenzie Mountains. The mining town of Tungsten, site of the Cantung Mine, is in the Mackenzie Mountains. Only two roads lead into the Mackenzie Mountains, both in Yukon: the Nahanni Range Road leading to the townsite of Tungsten and the Canol Road leading to the Macmillan Pass. The highest mountain in this range is Keele Peak at , in Yukon. The second-highest mountain is Mount Nirvana. It is, at , the highest mountain in the Northwest Territories. The Silurian fish family Archipelepididae has been described from specimens found in the Mackenzie Mountains.Soehn, K. L., Märss, T., Caldwell, M. W. & Wilson, M. V. H., 2001: New and biostratigraphically useful the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Nirvana
Mount Nirvana, at is the unofficial name of the highest mountain in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Currently the Canadian government is working to officially recognize the name ''Thunder Mountain'', reflecting the local Dehcho First Nation name for the mountain. Today, the name ''Mt. Nirvana'' is commonly depicted in alpine literature. Mount Nirvana is part of Nahanni National Park Reserve, the largest national park in the Northwest Territories. History Part of the Mackenzie Mountains, it was first climbed by Bill Buckingham and Lew Surdam in July 1965.Principal heights by range or region from Statistics Canada Buckingham gave the mountain the moniker of "Mount Nirvana" at that time. See ...
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Dehcho Region
The Dehcho Region or ''Deh Cho'' is one of five administrative regions in the Northwest Territories of Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tota .... According to Municipal and Community Affairs the region consists of six communities with the regional office situated in Fort Simpson. All communities in the Dehcho are predominantly Dehcho First Nations.Some government departments, such as the Bureau of Statistics, also include Fort Providence, Hay River Dene 1 and Kakisa. However, Municipal and Community Affairs indicates they are part of the South Slave Region Communities The Dehcho Region includes the following communities: References External links Deh Cho Region at Municipal and Community Affairs {{coord, 61, 51, 47, N, 121, 21, 18, W, region:CA-NT_type:a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dene
The Dene people () are an indigenous group of First Nations who inhabit the northern boreal and Arctic regions of Canada. The Dene speak Northern Athabaskan languages. ''Dene'' is the common Athabaskan word for "people". The term "Dene" has two usages. More commonly, it is used narrowly to refer to the Athabaskan speakers of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Canada, especially including the Chipewyan (Denesuline), Tlicho (''Dogrib''), Yellowknives (T'atsaot'ine), Slavey (Deh Gah Got'ine or Deh Cho), and Sahtu (the Eastern group in Jeff Leer's classification; part of the Northwestern Canada group in Keren Rice's classification). However, it is sometimes also used to refer to all Northern Athabaskan speakers, who are spread in a wide range all across Alaska and northern Canada. The Southern Athabaskan speakers, however, also refer to themselves by similar words: Diné (Navajo) and Indé (Apache). Location Dene are spread through a wide region. They live in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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