Pilot crater

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Impact crater

Pilot Lake is a lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada. The lake is located between Lake Athabasca and Great Slave Lake, 50 km east of Fort Smith and about 30 km north of the Alberta border. The circular lake has a diameter of about 6 km. The lake lies in the catchment of Taltson River, a tributary of the Great Slave Lake.

The lake is used for fishing the following fish: American lake trout, pike, Coregonus and American pike.

The lake is located in an impact crater, which has a diameter of 6 km and has an age of about 445 ± 2 million years ( Upper Ordovician ).