{{Short description|Lake in Nunavut, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox body of water | name = Bluenose Lake | image = Bluenose Lake 2019-09-10 Sentinel-2 L2A Highlight Optimized Natural Color.jpg | caption = [[Sentinel-2]] image (2019) | image_bathymetry = | caption_bathymetry = | pushpin_map = Canada Nunavut | pushpin_map_caption = Location in Nunavut | location = [[Kitikmeot Region|Kitikmeot]], [[Nunavut]] | coords = {{coord|68|26|N|119|45|W|region:CA-NU_type:waterbody_scale:1000000|display=inline,title}} | type = | inflow = | outflow = [[Croker River]] | catchment = | basin_countries = Canada | length = {{convert|33|mi|abbr=on}} | width = {{convert|12|mi|abbr=on}} | area = {{convert|155|mi2|km2|abbr=on}} | depth = | max-depth = | volume = | residence_time = | shore = | elevation = {{convert|1800|ft|m|abbr=on}} | islands = | cities = uninhabited }} '''Bluenose Lake''' is a [[lake]] in [[Kitikmeot Region]], [[Nunavut]], Canada. It is located north of the [[Arctic Circle]] within the large, shallow basin of the [[Melville Hills]]. It is approximately {{convert|33|mi|km|abbr=on}} long, {{convert|12|mi|abbr=on}} wide, and is situated at {{convert|1800|ft|abbr=on}} above [[above mean sea level|sea level]].<ref>Kelsall, p. 190</ref> The [[Croker River]] flows north from Bluenose Lake to the [[Arctic Ocean]], entering at [[Dolphin and Union Strait]].<ref name="Hodgins">{{cite book|last=Hodgins|first=Bruce W.|author2=Gwyneth Hoyle|title=Canoeing north into the unknown: a record of river travel, 1874 to 1974|publisher=Dundurn Press Ltd.|date=1994|pages=168|isbn=978-0-920474-93-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eBn41p-P9lYC&dq=%22bluenose+lake%22+river&pg=PA168}}</ref>
It was officially named in 1953 by John Kelsall and James Mitchell subsequent to their biological investigation of the previously unnamed lake.<ref name="Kelsall">{{cite journal|last=Kelsall|first=John P.|title=Observations of birds and mammals at Bluenose Lake|journal=Arctic|volume=23|issue=3|doi=10.14430/arctic3171|year=1970}}</ref>
==Fauna== The area [[barren-ground caribou]] are divided, genetically, into two herds, Bluenose-east and Bluenose-west.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Patterson |first=Brent R. |author2=Benjamin T. Olsen |author3=Damien O. Joly |date=March 2004 |title=Population estimate for the Bluenose-East caribou herd |journal=Arctic |volume=57 |issue=1 |pages=47–58 |url=http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic57-1-47.pdf |doi=10.14430/arctic482 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524221035/http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic57-1-47.pdf |archivedate=May 24, 2013 }}</ref> Other mammals include [[Arctic fox]], [[Arctic ground squirrel]], [[Arctic hare]], Back's lemming, barren-ground grizzly bear, [[collared lemming]], [[muskox]], [[Stoat|short-tailed weasel]], [[tundra vole]], and [[Gray wolf|wolf]].<ref name="Kelsall" />
Birds that frequent the area include [[Black-throated diver|Arctic loon]], [[Arctic tern]], [[Baird's sandpiper]], [[Grey plover|black-bellied plover]], [[buff-breasted sandpiper]], [[Canada goose]], [[glaucous gull]], [[golden eagle]], [[American golden plover|golden plover]], [[American herring gull|herring gull]], [[king eider]], [[Lapland bunting|Lapland longspur]], [[Long-tailed skua|long-tailed jaeger]], [[mallard]], northern phalarope, [[Long-tailed duck|oldsquaw]], [[Arctic skua|parasitic jaeger]], [[pectoral sandpiper]], [[Northern pintail|pintail]], [[raven]], [[red-breasted merganser]], [[Red-throated diver|red-throated loon]], [[Rough-legged buzzard|rough-legged hawk]], [[sanderling]], [[semipalmated sandpiper]], [[short-eared owl]], [[snow bunting]], [[snowy owl]], [[tree sparrow]], [[water pipit]], [[Tundra swan|whistling swan]], [[Willow grouse|willow ptarmigan]], and [[White-billed diver|yellow-billed loon]].<ref name="Kelsall" />
==References== {{Reflist|2}}
{{Lakes of Nunavut}} {{Authority control}}
[[Category:Lakes of the Kitikmeot Region]]