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Athabasca
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or (Athapescow), or ELK, a river and lake of the province of Alberta, Canada. The river rises in the Rocky Mountains near the Yellowhead Pass in 52° 10' N. and 117° 10' W., and flows north-east as far as Athabasca Landing, and thence north into Lake Athabasca. It is 74.o m. long and has a number of important tributaries, including the McLeod, Pembina, Lesser 1 This is by some authorities divided into two.
Slave, which drains the lake of that name, and Clearwater. Athabasca lake is 195 m. long, west to east, from 20 to 32 m. wide, has an area of 3085 sq. m., and is 690 ft. above the sea. It discharges its waters northward by Slave river and the Mackenzie system to the Arctic Ocean. On its north shore the country is high and rocky; on the south, sandy and barren. Shallowdraught steamers navigate the lake and river, and Lesser Slave lake and river, with one interruption - at Grand Rapids near the mouth of the Clearwater river.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Athabasca'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/athabasca.html. 1910.
