Maligne Lake

The Maligne Lake is a lake in Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada, approximately 50 km south of the town of Jasper.

The lake lies at an altitude of 1670 meters, has an area of nearly 20 square kilometers, an average depth of 100 m and a shoreline length of 45 km. It is fed by the Maligne River, a tributary of the Athabasca River with glacier water and its temperature never rises above 4 ° C. In the lake is the island of Iceland Spirit one of the landmarks of the Canadian Rocky Mountains.

The "discovery" of the lake is Mary Schaffer attributed in 1908, the said lake at the headwaters of the Athabasca was looking after one of the Indians Chaba Imne ( beaver lake ) and got a rough sketch map of the Stoney Indians Samson Beaver. As the first member of a non-indigenous people, however, saw Henry McLeod, participants in a CPR Expedition, 1875 the lake.

In Maligne Lake living populations of rainbow trout and brook trout. In the surrounding areas of the oligotrophic lake with little nutrients and therefore less organic production can be found in the summer of grizzlies, black bears, mule deer, caribou, wolves, moose, mountain goats and bighorn sheep a. Bald eagles and ospreys feed on fish in the lake.

Frozen Maligne Lake