where is Great Bear Lake or Sahtu?
It’s a bit of mystery to most people. That it remains such a mystery is strange since it is North America’s 4th largest fresh water lake and the 8th largest in the world. Great Bear sits in splendid isolation in our Northwest Territories astride the Arctic Circle and but for the tiny settlement of Deline is virtually uninhabited. If you are very lucky the lake is ice free for about 8 weeks a year. In fact it is rarely ever totally ice free. The water – all 12,000 square miles of it – is clear, pure and sweet to the taste. Wildlife such as Muskoxen, Caribou, Barren Ground Grizzly Bears, Bald and Golden Eagles, Gyrfalcons and water birds too numerous to mention abound in the area. It is also the greatest lake trout and arctic grayling fishery on earth – bar none. Not a great deal has been written about the lake and surrounding area. Notations in the journals of various explorers and adventurers such as Sir John Franklin, George Back, John Hornby, George Douglas and Charles Camsell dating
