Amadjuak Lake

Amadjuak Lake is a lake in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. Along with Nettilling Lake, it is located in south-central Baffin Island's Great Plain of the Koukdjuak. It is south of Burwash Bay. The closest community is Iqaluit.

Geography

The lake is in size, and sits at an elevation of.
This lower-lying area only emerged 4,500 years ago from beneath the waters of Foxe Basin. Amadjuak is the second largest lake on Baffin Island and third-largest in Nunavut.

Ethnography

The lake was a gathering place for Inuit from Kimmirut, Soper River Valley, Pangnirtung, Kinngait, and Frobisher Bay.

Fauna

Amadjuak Lake is also notable as a summer feeding grounds, calving grounds, and migration route for the Southern Qikiqtaaluk herd of barren-ground caribou.