Lake Beechey

{{Short description|Lake in Nunavut, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox lake |name = Lake Beechey |image = |caption = |image_bathymetry =Lake Beechey.png |caption_bathymetry = |location = Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut |coords = {{coord|65|25|00|N|106|50|00|W|region:CA-NU_type:waterbody_scale:1000000|display=inline,title|name=Lake Beechey}} |type = |pushpin_map=Canada Nunavut |inflow =Back River |outflow =Back River |catchment = |basin_countries = Canada |length = |width = |area = |depth = |max-depth = |volume = |residence_time = |shore = |elevation = |islands = |cities = 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.<ref>{{cite book |pages=149 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I3dy40EqyCAC&dq=%22lake+beechey%22&pg=PA149 |title=Faces Of The North: The Ethnographic Photography Of John Honigmann |last=Cummins |first=Bryan |author2=Cummins, B.D. |year=2004 |publisher=Dundurn Press Ltd |location=Toronto |isbn=1-896219-79-9}}</ref>

The first European to explore the lake was George Back<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nirPnnbkO9IC&dq=%22lake+beechey%22&pg=PA525 |pages=525 |title=Great adventures and explorations: from the earliest times to the present as told by the explorers themselves |last=Stefansson |first=V. |author2=Wilcox, O. R. |author3=Harrison, R. E. |year=2005 |publisher=Kessinger Publishing |location=Whitefish, Montana |isbn=1-4179-9090-2}}</ref> and named by Sir John Franklin in honour of Frederick William Beechey.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/frederick-william-beechey|title=Frederick William Beechey|accessdate=August 21, 2019|publisher=The Canadian Encyclopedia}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/namesandtheirhi00taylgoog |quote=lake beechey. |pages=[https://archive.org/details/namesandtheirhi00taylgoog/page/n79 65] |title=Names and Their Histories: A Handbook of Historical Geography and Topographical Nomenclature |last=Taylor |first=Isaac |year=1898 |publisher=Rivingtons |location=London |oclc=4161840}}</ref>

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