Soper Lake

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inflow = Soper River
outflow = Pleasant Inlet
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Soper Lake ("Tasiujajuaq", Inuit term meaning "big lake-like lake") is located on the southernmost peninsula of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. The Inuit name references the lake's meromictic attribute, a mixture of fresh and salt water caused by a set of reversing falls and 9-10 meter tides in Pleasant Inlet. The fresh water of Soper River ("Kuujuaq", "the great river"), a Canadian Heritage River, drains into the lake which drains into the salt water Pleasant Inlet before reaching the Arctic Ocean.

Kimmirut (previously named Lake Harbour) is a hamlet on the lake at Glasgow Bay. In 1911, Hudson's Bay Company established its first south Baffin trading post at Lake Harbour. [cite web |url=http://www.grandmagazine.ca/grandmagazine/may2006/grandmagazine_060502112116.html |title=Baffin Island's green valley |date=May 2, 2006
author=Katherine Jacob |publisher=Grand Magazine |accessdate-2008-01-19]

The lake is home to Greenland cod. The river and lake were named by Canadian biologist and Arctic explorer, J. Dewey Soper who travelled in the area in 1931. [cite web |url=http://www.tatshenshini.com/tripsearch/?river=Soper+River |title=The Soper River - Baffin Island |publisher=tatshenshini.com |accessdate=2008-01-19]

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* [ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/paleolimnology/northamerica/canada/baffin/soper_2000.txt Summer temperature reconstruction based on laminae thickness in sediments from Upper Soper Lake, Baffin Island, Canada]