Ennadai Lake
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Ennadai Lake
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 Ennadai Lake
Location in Nunavut
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| Location | Kivalliq Region, Nunavut |
| Coordinates | 60°55′N 101°20′W / 60.917°N 101.333°WCoordinates: 60°55′N 101°20′W / 60.917°N 101.333°W |
| Primary outflows | Kazan River |
| Basin countries | Canada |
| Max. length | 84 km (52 mi) |
| Max. width | 23 km (14 mi) |
| Surface area | 681 km2 (263 sq mi) |
| Surface elevation | 311 m (1,020 ft) |
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Ennadai Lake is a lake in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is 52 mi (84 km) long, and 3 to 14 mi (4.8 to 22.5 km) wide. It is drained to the north by the Kazan River. A 615 km section of the Kazan River from the outlet of Ennadai Lake to Baker Lake, was designated as a part of the Canadian Heritage Rivers System in 1990. It is in northern Canada's Keewatin Region of the Northwest Territories, now the Kivalliq Region ("Barren Lands") of present-day Nunavut.
The lake is within the Hearne Domain.
At Ennadai Lake's Kazan River outflow, the forest includes sparse black spruce and tamarack that grow approximately 1–2 m (3 ft 3 in–6 ft 7 in) high, stunted because of harsh winds and dry summers.
Ennadai Lake is part of the "annual migration route of the almost 500,000 strong Qamanirjuaq herd, and the occasional route of the 275,000 member Beverly herd." Beverly Lake is the area where the Beverly herd regularly bears its young. The Qamanirjuaq herd regularly bears its young near Qamanirjuaq Lake. Both herds historically migrate into Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Northwest Territories. According to Arviat elders from Arviat, for the first time since the late 1960s, Qamanirjuaq caribou began their spring migration where the Seal River flows into the Hudson Bay." Since the 1960s, Qamanirjuaq caribou have been moving out of their winter range in northwestern Manitoba, northeastern Saskatchewan, southeastern NWT, and southwestern Nunavut into staging areas near Cullaton Lake, Seal Hole Lake and Ennadai Lake." In late March/early April when tens of thousands of caribou occupy these areas just before their spring migration "east as far as the Hudson Bay coast, then north to their calving grounds." In April large groups of yearlings and cows begin their traditional migration corridors back to the calving areas and in May the bulls leave their winter range and begin their migration.
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