Hottah Lake Explained
| Hottah Lake |
| Caption Map: | This image shows Great Bear Lake and the surrounding region. The much smaller Hottah Lake is seen here as the largest body of water lying to the south-east of Great Bear Lake |
| Image Bathymetry: | Hottah Lake Northwest Territories Canada locator 01.jpg |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Northwest Territories |
| Location: | Northwest Territories |
| Coords: | [1] |
| Basin Countries: | Canada |
| Area: | 918km2 |
| Elevation: | 180m (590feet) |
| Reference: | [2] |
Hottah Lake is the sixth largest lake in the Northwest Territories, Canada.[3]
Plane crash
On 8 November 1972, a medical evacuation aircraft piloted by Marten Hartwell crashed on a hillside near the lake. Hartwell broke both legs while the nurse, Judy Hill, and a pregnant Inuk woman named Neemee Nulliayok died. David Pisurayak Kootook also survived the crash but died after 20 days. Kootook was instrumental in the pair's survival but unlike Hartwell would not eat the flesh of the dead nurse.[4]
Legacy
When the Mars Curiosity rover discovered solid evidence of an ancient streambed on Mars from a pile of cemented smooth rocks (conglomerates), the project managers named one of the two rock outcrop sites Hottah (the other is named Link) after the Lake.[5] [6]
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Notes and References
- Web site: Hottah Lake World Lakes Database - ILEC . https://web.archive.org/web/20120303232001/http://wldb.ilec.or.jp/LakeDB2/Lake.asp?LakeID=SNAM-075&RoutePrm=0:;4:load;5:load; . March 3, 2012. dead .
- Web site: Principal lakes, elevation and area, by province and territory. Statistics Canada. February 2, 2005. March 11, 2015.
- Web site: The Atlas of Canada – Lakes . 2011-01-29 . 2012-10-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121006020148/http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/auth/english/learningresources/facts/lakes.html/#northwest . dead .
- https://books.google.com/books?id=fAFF7DBhJOsC&dq=Martin+Hartwell&pg=PA111 As Told at the Explorers Club: More Than Fifty Gripping Tales of Adventure By George Plimpton
- Web site: Mars Rover Finds Evidence of Ancient Streambed . Kimm . Fesenmaier . September 27, 2012 . Caltech Media Relations . https://web.archive.org/web/20121104041620/http://www.caltech.edu/article/13565 . November 4, 2012.
- Web site: NASA Rover Finds Old Streambed on Martian Surface . Guy . Webster . September 27, 2012 . Caltech Media Relations . March 21, 2022 . December 19, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141219062847/http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20120927.html . dead .
