Nettilling Lake
Located on Baffin Island in the Arctic Circle Nett Lake Illing [ nɛʧɪlɪŋ ] ² by 5542 km area and 123 km maximum length of the largest freshwater lake in the Canadian territory of Nunavut and the eleventh largest in Canada.
It lies 30 meters above sea level. 110 km southwest of the Auyuittuq National Park and 280 km north- west of Iqaluit in the great plain of Koukdjuak and together with the second largest lake of Baffin Island, the Amadjuak Lake, from which it is fed, and the Mingo Lake and a variety of flow stasis an extensive area lakes. The Illing Nett Lake pours over the very shallow and wide Koukdjuak River in the Foxe Basin.
Composed of the three bays Mirage, Camsell Burwash and the eastern part of the lake proves to be relatively flat, and so it contains a large number of small islands, while the western part is much deeper and without islands.
The south bank of the net Illing Lakes was discovered in 1883 by the German - American polar explorer Franz Boas. Between 1924 and 1926, Joseph Dewey Soper ( 1893-1982 ) held in the lakes region and explored the region to Amadjuak Lake. At that time, lived here for the caribou and fish wealth many Inuit in their camps; Today the area is no longer inhabited.
The name "Nice Illing " probably goes to the Inuktitut word for seal, Netsiq back: The most time of the year frozen lake always attracts ringed seals. Main inhabitants of the lake but the three fish species Arctic char ( Salvelinus alpinus ), nine-spined stickleback ( Pungitius pungitius ) and three-spined stickleback ( Gasterosteus aculeatus ). For the latter, the Illing Nett Lake is considered to be the northernmost spawning ground. All three species feed on larvae of the marine midge ( Clunio marinus, family Chironomidae ), which account for 95% of the microfauna of the net Illing Lake.
The tundra around the entire lake area is used as a feeding ground caribou calving and region. Here in the spring and early summer months developing the most comprehensive Caribou concentration of the Canadian Archipelago, and the main trail leads these animals in spring and fall past the Amadjuak Lake.