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Mackenzie River

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Canada's longest river system, flowing roughly 1,740 kilometers from Great Slave Lake through the Northwest Territories to the Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Sea. Together with its tributaries it drains the largest river basin in Canada.

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Wikidata: Mackenzie River
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Mackenzie River (Wikipedia)
  • Shaped By: Glacial Retreat, Lead and sections
    Today's Mackenzie River is very young in geologic terms, its channel formed over a period of no more than several thousand years as the ice sheet retreated.
  • Flows Into: The Arctic Ocean, Infobox: mouth
    Arctic Ocean
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