Lake Beechey

Lake Beechey
Lake Beechey
Location	Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut
Coordinates	65°25′00″N106°50′00″W / 65.41667°N 106.83333°W / 65.41667; -106.83333 (Lake Beechey)
Primary inflows	Back River
Primary outflows	Back River
Basin  countries	Canada
Settlements	uninhabited

Lake Beechey (sometimes Beechey Lake) is a lake in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is a long, narrow, lake-expansion of the Back River. It is part of the western Canadian Precambrian Shield. It contains a few unnamed islands.

Historically, Lake Beechey was the southernmost territory of Copper Inuit. ^[1]

The first European to explore the lake was George Back ^[2] and named by Sir John Franklin in honour of Frederick William Beechey. ^{[3] [4]}

References

1. Cummins, Bryan; Cummins, B.D. (2004). Faces Of The North: The Ethnographic Photography Of John Honigmann. Toronto: Dundurn Press Ltd. p. 149. ISBN   1-896219-79-9.
2. Stefansson, V.; Wilcox, O. R.; Harrison, R. E. (2005). Great adventures and explorations: from the earliest times to the present as told by the explorers themselves. Whitefish, Montana: Kessinger Publishing. p. 525. ISBN   1-4179-9090-2.
3. "Frederick William Beechey". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
4. Taylor, Isaac (1898). Names and Their Histories: A Handbook of Historical Geography and Topographical Nomenclature. London: Rivingtons. pp.  65. OCLC   4161840. lake beechey.