Lake Beechey Explained

Lake Beechey
Image Bathymetry:	Lake Beechey.png
Coords:	65.4167°N -106.8333°W
Pushpin Map:	Canada Nunavut
Basin Countries:	Canada
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.^[1]

The first European to explore the lake was George Back^[2] and named by Sir John Franklin in honour of Frederick William Beechey.^{[3] [4]}

Notes and References

1. Book: Cummins, Bryan . 149 . Faces Of The North: The Ethnographic Photography Of John Honigmann . Cummins, B.D. . 2004 . Dundurn Press Ltd . Toronto . 1-896219-79-9.
2. Book: Stefansson, V. . Great adventures and explorations: from the earliest times to the present as told by the explorers themselves . 525 . Wilcox, O. R. . Harrison, R. E. . 2005 . Kessinger Publishing . Whitefish, Montana . 1-4179-9090-2.
3. Web site: Frederick William Beechey. August 21, 2019. The Canadian Encyclopedia.
4. Book: Taylor, Isaac . Names and Their Histories: A Handbook of Historical Geography and Topographical Nomenclature . lake beechey. . 65 . 1898 . Rivingtons . London . 4161840.