Lake · Northwest Territories

Great Bear Lake

156 m512 ft

Area: 30,423 km²
Max depth: 446 m
Tonight: -4°CPartly cloudy · Wind 30 km/h W

Great Bear Lake is a lake at 156 m above sea level in Northwest Territories, Canada, 30,423 km² in area and 327.3 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 156 m
Length: 327.3 km
Shoreline: 3,729.7 km

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3D map

Great Bear Lake 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Great Bear Lake topographic map

20 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 100 mShowing west → east through the centre

Great Bear Lake elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Downloads

Great Bear Lake downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGGreat Bear Lake satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-08-17.

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GIS & GPS

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Lake

Great Bear Lake in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 3,729.7 km

Weather

Great Bear Lake weather

Today · Partly cloudy · -4 / -1°C (25 / 30°F) · Wind 30 km/h W

Great Bear Lake forecast for about 156 m.

Today-4°-1°–30 km/h W
Sat-4°-3°–22 km/h S
Sun0°1°–26 km/h SW
Mon0°1°0.3 mm22 km/h NW
Tue0°1°0.7 mm23 km/h NW
Wed-1°-1°0.1 mm28 km/h S
Thu-1°1°–36 km/h S
Fri-1°-1°–22 km/h S
Sat1°1°–18 km/h S
Sun1°2°0.1 mm15 km/h SE

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.

Slope

Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 99% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

99.1%

Moderate, 15–30°

0.9%

Steep, 30–45°

0.0%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.0% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 459 m low point 155 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 67.0%Trees 21.4%Grassland 9.9%Moss & lichen 1.6%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Where it sits

Where Great Bear Lake sits

Sources

Data sources

Terrain: Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-08-17)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia