# Bluenose Lake

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Lake in Nunavut, Canada

Bluenose Lake Sentinel-2 image (2019) Bluenose Lake Location in Nunavut Location Kitikmeot, Nunavut Coordinates 68°26′N 119°45′W / 68.433°N 119.750°W / 68.433; -119.750 Primary outflows Croker River Basin countries Canada Max. length 33 mi (53 km) Max. width 12 mi (19 km) Surface area 155 mi2 (400 km2) Surface elevation 1,800 ft (550 m) Settlements uninhabited

**Bluenose Lake** is a [lake](/source/Lake) in [Kitikmeot Region](/source/Kitikmeot_Region), [Nunavut](/source/Nunavut), Canada. It is located north of the [Arctic Circle](/source/Arctic_Circle) within the large, shallow basin of the [Melville Hills](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Melville_Hills&action=edit&redlink=1). It is approximately 33 mi (53 km) long, 12 mi (19 km) wide, and is situated at 1,800 ft (550 m) above [sea level](/source/Above_mean_sea_level).[1] The [Croker River](/source/Croker_River) flows north from Bluenose Lake to the [Arctic Ocean](/source/Arctic_Ocean), entering at [Dolphin and Union Strait](/source/Dolphin_and_Union_Strait).[2]

It was officially named in 1953 by John Kelsall and James Mitchell subsequent to their biological investigation of the previously unnamed lake.[3]

## Fauna

The area [barren-ground caribou](/source/Barren-ground_caribou) are divided, genetically, into two herds, Bluenose-east and Bluenose-west.[4] Other mammals include [Arctic fox](/source/Arctic_fox), [Arctic ground squirrel](/source/Arctic_ground_squirrel), [Arctic hare](/source/Arctic_hare), Back's lemming, barren-ground grizzly bear, [collared lemming](/source/Collared_lemming), [muskox](/source/Muskox), [short-tailed weasel](/source/Stoat), [tundra vole](/source/Tundra_vole), and [wolf](/source/Gray_wolf).[3]

Birds that frequent the area include [Arctic loon](/source/Black-throated_diver), [Arctic tern](/source/Arctic_tern), [Baird's sandpiper](/source/Baird's_sandpiper), [black-bellied plover](/source/Grey_plover), [buff-breasted sandpiper](/source/Buff-breasted_sandpiper), [Canada goose](/source/Canada_goose), [glaucous gull](/source/Glaucous_gull), [golden eagle](/source/Golden_eagle), [golden plover](/source/American_golden_plover), [herring gull](/source/American_herring_gull), [king eider](/source/King_eider), [Lapland longspur](/source/Lapland_bunting), [long-tailed jaeger](/source/Long-tailed_skua), [mallard](/source/Mallard), northern phalarope, [oldsquaw](/source/Long-tailed_duck), [parasitic jaeger](/source/Arctic_skua), [pectoral sandpiper](/source/Pectoral_sandpiper), [pintail](/source/Northern_pintail), [raven](/source/Raven), [red-breasted merganser](/source/Red-breasted_merganser), [red-throated loon](/source/Red-throated_diver), [rough-legged hawk](/source/Rough-legged_buzzard), [sanderling](/source/Sanderling), [semipalmated sandpiper](/source/Semipalmated_sandpiper), [short-eared owl](/source/Short-eared_owl), [snow bunting](/source/Snow_bunting), [snowy owl](/source/Snowy_owl), [tree sparrow](/source/Tree_sparrow), [water pipit](/source/Water_pipit), [whistling swan](/source/Tundra_swan), [willow ptarmigan](/source/Willow_grouse), and [yellow-billed loon](/source/White-billed_diver).[3]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Kelsall, p. 190

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Hodgins_2-0)** Hodgins, Bruce W.; Gwyneth Hoyle (1994). [*Canoeing north into the unknown: a record of river travel, 1874 to 1974*](https://books.google.com/books?id=eBn41p-P9lYC&dq=%22bluenose+lake%22+river&pg=PA168). Dundurn Press Ltd. p. 168. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-920474-93-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-920474-93-8).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Kelsall_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Kelsall_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Kelsall_3-2) Kelsall, John P. (1970). "Observations of birds and mammals at Bluenose Lake". *Arctic*. **23** (3). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.14430/arctic3171](https://doi.org/10.14430%2Farctic3171).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Patterson, Brent R.; Benjamin T. Olsen; Damien O. Joly (March 2004). ["Population estimate for the Bluenose-East caribou herd"](https://web.archive.org/web/20130524221035/http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic57-1-47.pdf) (PDF). *Arctic*. **57** (1): 47–58. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.14430/arctic482](https://doi.org/10.14430%2Farctic482). Archived from [the original](http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic57-1-47.pdf) (PDF) on May 24, 2013.

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