Divided into North and East arms and South and West shores, its West Mirage Islands are a bird-breeding paradise.  
Divided into North and East arms and South and West shores, its West Mirage Islands are a bird-breeding paradise.  Explored extensively in 1771 by Samuel Hearne, important towns on it include Fort Providence and Fort Resolution, while the largest city on its shores sprang up during a gold-rush in the 1930s.  Both the Hay and its namesake river flow into it and its northern location causes it to be ice-filled for eight months of the year.  FTP, name this lake drained by the Mackenzie on whose edges Yellowknife sits, the deepest in North America and second largest in Canada after the Great Bear Lake.
Divided into North and East arms and South and West shores, its West Mirage Islands are a bird-breeding paradise.  
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