Lake Beechey

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location = Kitikmeot, Nunavut
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Lake Beechey (sometimes Beechey Lake) is a long, narrow, lake-expansion of the Back River in the Northern Canadian territory of Nunavut. It is part of the western Canadian Precambrian Shield. It contains a few un-named islands.

Historically, Lake Beechey was the southernmost territory of Copper Inuit. [cite book |pages=p. 149 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=I3dy40EqyCAC&pg=PA149&lpg=PA149&dq=%22lake+beechey%22&source=web&ots=DOz_Tui_0P&sig=BJpoE8IOmeegeuGJvP3u25gwezo&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result |title=Faces Of The North: The Ethnographic Photography Of John Honigmann |last=Cummins |first=Bryan |coauthors=Cummins, B.D. |year=2004 |publisher=Dundurn Press Ltd |location=Toronto |isbn=1896219799]

The lake was discovered by explorer George Back [cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=nirPnnbkO9IC&pg=PA525&lpg=PA525&dq=%22lake+beechey%22&source=web&ots=xULJkPtFvj&sig=5NDpEFJQRszuofV2osvj_CWCQb4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPA525,M1 |pages=p. 525 |title=Great adventures and explorations : from the earliest times to the present as told by the explorers themselves |last=Stefansson |first=V. |coauthors=Wilcox, O. R., & Harrison, R. E. |year=2005 |publisher=Kessinger Publishing |location=Whitefish, Montana |isbn=1417990902] and named by Sir John Franklin in honor of Frederick William Beechey. [cite web |url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000634 |title=Beechey, Frederick William |accessdate=2008-08-24 |last= |first= |coauthors= |date= |work= |publisher=thecanadianencyclopedia.com] [cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=vqgYAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA65&lpg=RA1-PA65&dq=%22lake+beechey%22&source=web&ots=gFVuTHv8Nn&sig=WhflW0kz3d9ZY-oP68lEnrQ4Ips&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result |pages=p. 65 |title=Names and Their Histories: A Handbook of Historical Geography and Topographical Nomenclature |last=Taylor |first=Isaac |year=1898 |publisher=Rivingtons |location=London |oclc=4161840]

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