Garry Lake

Garry Lake Hanningajuq
Garry Lake Location in Nunavut
Location	Kivalliq Region, Nunavut
Coordinates	65°53′N 99°51′W / 65.883°N 99.850°W / 65.883; -99.850 (Garry Lake)Coordinates: 65°53′N 99°51′W / 65.883°N 99.850°W / 65.883; -99.850 (Garry Lake)
Primary inflows	Lake Pelly
Primary outflows	Back River
Basin countries	Canada
Max. length	97 km (60 mi)
Max. width	61 km (38 mi)
Surface area	976 km2 (377 sq mi)
Average depth	6.1 m (20 ft)
Max. depth	9.1 m (30 ft)
Surface elevation	148 m (486 ft)
Islands	many
Settlements	uninhabited

uninhabited

Garry Lake (variant: Garry Lakes; Inuktitut: Hanningajuq, meaning "sideways", or "crooked") is a lake in sub-Arctic Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. As a portion of the Back River waterway, Garry Lake originates directly east of Lake Pelly and drains to the east by the Back River. A set of rapids separate Buliard Lake (directly to the north) from Garry Lake. Two other sets of rapids separate Garry Lake's three sections (Upper Garry Lake, Garry Lake, Lower Garry Lake) which are also differentiated by elevation. Garry Lakes are isolated from nearby communities.

Garry Lakes are a part of the Churchill craton—Rae craton geological province. It is a low relief area including sedge/grass meadows along lake shores, and substrates of glacial silts, sands, and gravels.

As moulting Canada geese arrive in late summer, the Canadian Wildlife Service designated the area as a Key Migratory Bird Terrestrial Habitat site.

Hanningajuq is the Inuktitut word for both Garry Lake and the Christian cross. Garry Lake was historically home to Inuit who refer to themselves as Hanningajurmiut or Hanningaruqmiut or Hanningajulinmiut {meaning "the people of the place that lies across"}. Inuit to the north (the Utkusiksalinmiut) refer to Garry Lake Inuit as Ualininmiut ("people from the area of which the sun follows east to west"). The Garry Lake Inuktitut dialect is related to Utkuhiksalik, the dialect of the Utkusiksalinmiut. Like other Caribou Inuit, Hanningajurmiut life consisted of tracking Arctic game (Beverly herd Barren-ground caribou) and fishing (whitefish and lake trout). They lived in igloos in the winter months, and caribou skin tents in the summer months.