Maguse Lake

{{Short description|Lake in Nunavut, Canada}}

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|name = Maguse Lake

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|location =Kivalliq Region, Nunavut

|coords = {{coord|61|30|N|95|0|W|region:CA-NU_type:waterbody_scale:1000000|display=inline,title|name=Maguse Lake}}

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|outflow =Maguse River

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|basin_countries = Canada

|length ={{convert|72|km|abbr=on}}

|width ={{convert|7|km|abbr=on}}

|area = {{convert|1399|km2|abbr=on}}

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|cities =Arviat

|reference={{cite book|last=Pelly|first=David|title=The Old Way North|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|year=2008|pages=164|isbn=978-0-87351-616-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UA5x2F3cLQ8C&q=%22Maguse+Lake%22+arviat&pg=PA164}}

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Maguse Lake is a lake in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. It drains eastward into Hudson Bay by way of the {{convert|56|km|abbr=on}} long Maguse River.{{cite web|url=http://www.bartleby.com/69/15/M00815.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011113004632/http://www.bartleby.com/69/15/M00815.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2001-11-13 |title=Maguse Lake |year=2000 |work=The Columbia Gazetteer of North America |publisher=bartleby.com |accessdate=2008-12-03 }} The area is frequented by caribou.{{cite web|url=http://www.arctic-caribou.com/news_december02.html |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20120106170131/http://www.arctic-caribou.com/news_december02.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-01-06 |title=Hunting increases with new road |publisher=arctic-caribou.com |accessdate=2008-12-03 }} A fifteen-year project building a road to Maguse Lake from Arviat was completed in 2010.{{cite web|last1=Sherk|first1=Erika|title=Road from Arviat to Maguse Lake finished|url=http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2010-09/sep22_10lj.html|website=Northern News Services|accessdate=15 October 2016|date=September 22, 2010}}